Research Catalog

Title

About face : self-portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit artists / guest curators, Zena Pearlstone and Allan J. Ryan ; with essays by Joanna Woods-Marsden ... [et al.] ; foreword by Gerald R. McMaster.

Publication

Santa Fe, NM : Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pearlstone, Zena
• Ryan, Allan J.
• Woods-Marsden, Joanna, 1936-
• Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Description

xiii, 185 p. : col. ports.; 31 cm.

Summary

"This catalogue accompanied a well-received exhibition organized by the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in 2006 featuring sixty-two self-portraits by indigenous artists from throughout the United States and Canada. The photographs and accompanying essays explore the artists' communal and cultural connections, and discuss the evolution of self-portraiture as a medium for empowerment and self-representation."--Amazon.com.

Subject

• Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian > Exhibitions
• Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian > Expositions
• Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
• Indian artists > United States > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Indian artists > Canada > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Inuit artists > Portraits > Exhibitions
• Self-portraits > North America > Exhibitions
• Indians in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, November 2005 to April 2006 ...
• Includes self-portraits by forty-seven contemporary indigenous artists of the United States and Canada who work in a variety of media, from pottery and stone sculpture to acrylic painting and digital photography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (173-183).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Gerald R. McMaster -- Acknowledgements / Zena Pearlstone and Allan J. Ryan -- About face : self-portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit artists / Zena Pearlstone and Allan J. Ryan -- The beginnings of self-portraiture in the West / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- Contemporary self-portraits / Joanna Roche -- The self-portrait in Native North American art before 1945 / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Differing differences / Lucy R. Lippard.
• About face artists: Joe Feddersen -- Nisha Supahan -- David Bradley -- Shan Goshorn -- Okpik Pitseolak -- Jolene Rickard -- Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) -- Neil David, Sr. -- Brian Honyouti -- Roxanne Swentzell -- Kathleen Carlo -- Mattiusi Iyaituk -- Joe David -- Jesse Cooday -- Frederick McDonald -- David Neel -- David Ruben Piqtoukun -- Rick Bartow -- Robert Davidson -- Rebecca Belmore -- Carl Beam (1943-2005) -- Napachie Pootoogook (1938-2002) -- Oviloo Tunnillie -- G. Peter Jemison -- Harry Fonseca -- Bill Powless -- Ukjese van Kampen -- Pierre Sioui -- Allen Sapp -- Norval Morrisseau -- Joane Cardinal-Schubert -- Rosemary Lonewolf -- Ron Senungetuk -- Melanie Yazzie -- Kay WalkingStick -- George Littlechild -- Viviane Gray -- Susan Stewart Medicine Horse -- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith -- Rosalie Favell -- Jeffrey Thomas -- Carm Little Turtle -- Ernie Pepion (1944-2005) -- Lucita Woodis -- R. Gary Miller -- Robert Markle (1936-1990) -- Riel Benn.

ISBN

• 096227772X (hardbound)
• 9780962277726 (hardbound)
• 0962277738 (softbound)
• 9780962277733 (softbound)

OCLC

• 78797958
• SCSB-10383063

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library