Research Catalog

Title

First American art : the Charles and Valerie Diker collection of American Indian art / edited by Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster ; essays by Bruce Bernstein ... [et al.].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian ; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House (New York, N.Y.)
• Ash-Milby, Kathleen E.
• Bernstein, Bruce.
• McMaster, Gerald, 1953-
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center.

Description

263 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 32 cm.

Summary

"First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art accompanies a major exhibition of more than 200 Native American objects from the private collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. Like the exhibition, this illustrated volume is organized around seven principles of an indigenous aesthetic - idea, emotion, intimacy, movement, integrity, vocabulary, and composition - that are embodied in Native objects." "First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art is the product of a collaboration among Native and non-Native curators, scholars, and artists who share a deep commitment to articulating and heightening an understanding of American Indian aesthetics and to fostering an awareness of the exceptional beauty of Native art. With this book and exhibition, they introduce a new paradigm for the publication and display of Native American art - one in which its objects are appreciated as true works of art as well as significant cultural artifacts."--Jacket.

Subject

• Diker, Charles > Ethnological collections > Exhibitions
• Diker, Valerie > Ethnological collections > Exhibitions
• Indian art > North America > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Collectors and collecting > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Material culture > Exhibitions
• National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition First American art: The Charles and Valerie Diker collection of American Indian Art, on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York City, 24 April 2004-31 October 2005"--T.p. verso.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First American art / Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster -- Collecting Native American art in the twenty-first century / Margaret Dubin -- The spiritual import of Native American aesthetics / Donald Kuspit -- The aesthetic in American Indian art / Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster.

ISBN

• 0295984031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0971916322 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003026013

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library