Shapeshifting : : Transformations in Native American art
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Catalog of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., Jan. 14-Apr. 29, 2012.
Raising the bar / Karen Kramer Russell -- Expected evolution: the changing continuum / Bruce Bernstein -- Time-honored expression: the knowing of native objects / Joe D. Horse Capture -- A shore without a horizon: locating by looking anew / Jessica L. Horton -- Voicing: individuality, creativity, repetition, and change / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Famous long ago / Paul Chaat Smith.
Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture considered part of the past rather than widely present. This work challenges these assumptions by focusing on the objects as art rather than cultural or anthropological artifacts and on the multivalent creativity of Native American artists. The approach highlights the inventive contemporaneity that existed in all periods and continues today. More than 75 works in a wide range of media and scale are organized into four thematic groups: changing, expanding the imagination; knowing, expressing worldview; locating, exploring identity and place; and voicing, engaging the individual. The result is a paradigm shift in understanding Native American art.
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Ladies Library Collection.
PUBLISHED
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 244 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300177329
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Russell, Karen Kramer, 1971-
Berlo, Janet Catherine.
Ash-Milby, Kathleen E.
Peabody Essex Museum.
SUBJECTS
Indian art -- North America -- Exhibitions.
Shapeshifting -- Exhibitions.