Research Catalog

Title

Solitary raven : the selected writings of Bill Reid / with an afterword by Martine Reid ; edited with an introduction by Robert Bringhurst.

Author

Reid, Bill, 1920-1998

Publication

Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Bringhurst, Robert

Description

250 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In this book are thirty pieces of Reid's writing, spanning forty years of active life. The contents include his lyrical masterpiece "Out of Silence," his early accounts of expeditions to salvage precious artworks from empty Haida villages, a lecture demonstration on the grammer of classical Haida painting and sculpture, revealing accounts of his own development, his playful "Killer Whale Poem," meditations on the masterworks of his predecessors, and passionate statements from his late years on art and social issues."--Jacket.

Subject

• Reid, Bill, 1920-1998
• Haida artists
• Indian art > Northwest Coast of North America
• Haida sculpture
• Haida art

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Journey to Tanu (1954) -- People of the potlatch (1956) -- Art of the British Columbia indian (1958) -- Totem (1963) -- The art: an appreciation (1967) -- Out of the silence (1971) -- Curriculum Vitae I (1974) -- Myth of the land bridge (1975) -- Pieces of stone (1975) -- Wilson Duff (1976) -- Eighteen sixty-two (1978?) -- Classical artist on the northwest coast (1979) -- Haida means human being (1979) -- Bill Koochin (1980) -- The enchanted forest (1980) -- Master of the black field (1980?) -- This much we can understand (1981) -- New northwest coast art (1981) -- Components of the formline (1982?) -- The legacy (1982) -- Beasts, monsters, and humans (1982) -- Curriculum Vitae 2 (1983) -- Killer whale poem (1983) -- Anthropologist and the article (1983) -- These shining islands (1984) -- Becoming haida (1986) -- Joy is a well-made object (1988) -- Raw material of chaos (1989) -- Goldsmith's art (1991) -- Spirit of haida gwaii (1991).

ISBN

• 029598080X (Univ. of Wash.)
• 1550547976 (Douglas & McIntyre)

LCCN

^^^00048397^

OCLC

45172050

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library