TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berlo,Janet Catherine
AU  - Phillips,Ruth B.
TI  - Native North American art
T2  - Oxford history of art
SN  - 0192842668
AV  - E 98 .A7 B47 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Indian art
KW  - North America
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index; Chapter 1; An introduction to the indigenous arts of North America. Art history and Native art --; What is "art"? Western discourses and Native American objects --; Modes of appreciation : curiosity, specimen, artefact, and art --; What is an Indian? Clan, community, political structure, and art --; Cosmology --; The map of the cosmos --; The nature of spirit --; Dreams and the vision quest --; Shamanism --; Art and the public celebration of pwoer --; The power of personal adornment --; "Creativity is our tradition" : innovation and tradition in Native American art --; Gender and the making of art --; Chapter 2; The southwest; The southwest as a region --; The ancient world --; From the colonial era to the modern Pueblos --; Navajo and Apache arts --; Chapter 3; The east; The east as a region --; Hunting cultures, burial practices, and early Woodlands art forms --; Mississippian art and culture --; The cataclysm of contact : the southeast --; The early contact period in the northeast --; Arts of the middle ground --; Arts of self-adornment --; Chapter 4; The west; Introduction --; The Great Plains --; The intermontaine region : an artistic crossroads --; The far west : arts of California and the Great Basin --; Chapter 5; The north; Geography, environment, and language in the north --; Sub-arctic clothing : art to honour and protect --; The Arctic --; Chapter 6; The northwest coast; Origins --; The early contact period --; Styles and techniques --; Western connoisseurship and Northwest Coast art --; Shamanism --; Crest art --; The potlatch --; Art, commodity, and oral tradition --; Northwest Coast art in the twentieth century --; Chapter 7; The twentieth century : trends in modern Native art; Questions of definition --; Commoditization and contemporary art --; Moments of beginning --; The southern Plains and the Kiowa five --; The Southwest and the "Studio" style --; The display and marketing of American Indian art : exhibitions, mural projects, and competitions --; Native American modernisms, 1950-80 --; Institutional frameworks and modernisms in Canada --; Postmodernism, installation, and other post-studio art
N2  - Explores the indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions
ER  -