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Shapeshifting : transformations in Native American art
- Title
- Shapeshifting : transformations in Native American art / Karen Kramer Russell ; with Janet Catherine Berlo ... [et al.] ; and contributions by Kathleen Ash-Milby ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- 244 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., Jan. 14-Apr. 29, 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-[237]) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQF 14-601
- ISBN
- 9780875772233 (Peabody Essex (Museum) : pbk.)
- 0875772234 (Peabody Essex (Museum) : pbk.)
- 9780300177329 (Yale University Press : cloth)
- 0300177321 (Yale University Press : cloth)
- LCCN
- 2011928735
- OCLC
- 758982985
- Title
- Shapeshifting : transformations in Native American art / Karen Kramer Russell ; with Janet Catherine Berlo ... [et al.] ; and contributions by Kathleen Ash-Milby ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-[237]) and index.
- Added Author
- Kramer, Karen, 1971-Berlo, Janet Catherine.Ash-Milby, Kathleen E.Peabody Essex Museum.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 14-601