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Water, wind, breath : Southwest Native art in the Barnes Foundation

Title

Water, wind, breath : Southwest Native art in the Barnes Foundation / edited by Lucy Fowler Williams ; with texts by Tony R. Chavarria, TahNibaa Naataanii, and Ken Williams Jr. ; and contributions by Robert Bauver and Laurie D. Webster.

Author

Barnes Foundation, issuing body, publisher, host institution.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : The Barnes Foundation, [2022]
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
©2022

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Use in library	JFF 22-57	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description

viii, 211 pages : color illustrations, color map, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative art practices he saw there, formed a collection of Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. "Water, Wind, Breath" illuminates the materials, forms, and designs of the objects as they relate to Pueblo and Navajo histories and ideas. The book blends postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives, introducing readers to living artistic traditions filled with purpose, intention, and a deeply embedded spirituality that connects places, practices, and Native identities. Works by contemporary Native American artists are juxtaposed with historic pieces, illuminating the connections between heritage traditions and modern practices.

Subject

Genre/Form

Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Catalog from an exhibition, organized by and held at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 20-May 15, 2022--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Map -- In the shadows of paradise / Lucy Fowler Williams -- Chasing the dawn -- Tony R. Chavarria -- Pueblo pottery: meditations on clay mother's gift / Tony R. Chavarria -- Checklist of Pueblo pottery in the Barnes Foundation -- Navajo textiles: weaving a space of great peace / TahNibaa Naataanii -- A Navajo "slave" blanket / Lucy Fowler Williams -- Dating the Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation / Laurie D. Webster -- Checklist of Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation -- Southwest Native jewelry / Ken Williams Jr. -- Chief Ignacio of the Weeminuche Band / Lucy Fowler Williams -- Silver and Southwest Native art / Robert Bauver -- Checklist of the Southwest Native jewelry in the Barnes Foundation -- Appendix: summary of Southwest Native textile dye analyses / David A. Wenger, PhD

Call Number

JFF 22-57

ISBN

0300264127
9780300264128

LCCN

2021951960

OCLC

1297840968

Author

Barnes Foundation, issuing body, publisher, host institution.

Title

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : The Barnes Foundation, [2022]

Distributor

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Naataanii, TahNibaa, 1967- contributor.

Williams, Lucy Fowler, contributor.

Chavarria, Antonio R., contributor.

Williams, Ken, 1983- contributor.

Bauver, Robert, contributor.

Webster, Laurie D., 1952- contributor.

Wenger, David A., contributor.

Research Call Number

JFF 22-57

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