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The transforming image : painted arts of Northwest Coast First Nations
- Title
- The transforming image : painted arts of Northwest Coast First Nations / Bill McLennan and Karen Duffek.
- Author
- McLennan, Bill
- Publication
- Vancouver : MOA ; Vancouver ; Toronto ; Berkeley : Figure.1, [2022]
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | E78.N78 M384 2022g | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 24 x 28 cm
- Summary
- "In the two decades since its initial publication, The Transforming Image has become a must-have book for scholars and appreciators of Northwest Coast art, and, importantly, for First Nations artists, who have found inspiration in its wealth of images and ideas. A new edition of this groundbreaking volume makes its invaluable findings accessible once again. Its hundreds of photos of historical Indigenous artworks--objects and belongings now widely dispersed in collections around the world--are the extraordinary result of the Museum of Anthropology's Image Recovery Project, which used infrared photography to reveal paintings on historical Northwest Coast objects whose painted surfaces are obscured by the patina of age. The project assembled images of nearly a thousand different paintings over its two-decade run, and worked with contemporary First Nations artists to reconstruct the compositions and understand their original context and significance, which the authors discuss in their insightful and engaging commentary. These rediscovered artworks radically deepened the understanding of Northwest Coast First Nations painting, including techniques, materials, imagery, and the creativity of generations of ancestor artists. A new preface by Karen Duffek speaks to what the book has helped set in motion, and how First Nations artists and scholars today are taking this art forward in new and compelling directions."--
- Subject
- Indian painting > Northwest Coast of North America
- Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America > History
- Indian painters > Northwest Coast of North America > Biography
- First Nations painting > Northwest Coast of North America
- First Nations artists > Northwest Coast of North America > Biography
- First Nations > Northwest Coast of North America > History
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Lyle Wilson -- Outside the Box: Preface to the Second Edition / Karen Duffek -- Preface to the First Edition / Bill McLennan -- Introduction: Beneath the Patina -- The Image Recovery Project -- The Antiquity of Painting -- Painted Wealth -- The Painter's Kit -- Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing -- Regional Styles of Painting -- The Hand of the Individual -- A Transforming Tradition -- Appendix: Chest-end Motifs.
- ISBN
- 1773271989
- 9781773271989
- LCCN
- 99992858544
- OCLC
- on1299443940
- 1299443940
- SCSB-14518717
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries