Research Catalog

Title

The Plains Indians : artists of earth and sky / Gaylord Torrence.

Author

Torrence, Gaylord

Publication

• Paris : Musée du quai Branly : Éditions Skira ; New York : Skira Rizzoli, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Musée du quai Branly host institution.
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art host institution.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) host institution.

Description

317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits; 31 cm

Summary

• "In this exhibition, you will discover objects produced by 135 artists; objects that offer an unprecedented view of the continuity of the aesthetic traditions of the Plains Indians, from the 16th to the 20th century."--Musée du quai Branly brochure.
• The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky celebrates the extraordinary beauty, power, and spiritual resonance of Plains Indian art throughout time. Richly illustrated, this volume includes a wealth of masterworks from European and North American collections, ranging from a 2,000-year-old Human Effigy stone pipe to a 2011 beaded adaptation of designer shoes. Works of art collected centuries ago by French traders and travelers are presented together with those acquired by Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition of 1804-06, along with objects from the early reservation era and contemporary works based in traditional forms and ideas. The distinct Plains aesthetic -- intertwined with the natural world, ephemeral, and materially rich -- is revealed through an array of forms and mediums: painting and drawing; sculptural works in stone, wood, antler, and shell; porcupine quill and glass bead embroidery; feather work; painted robes depicting figures and geometric shapes; and richly ornamented clothing and ceremonial objects. Many nations are represented -- Osage, Quapaw, Omaha, Crow, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, Blackfeet, Pawnee, Kiowa, Comanche, Mesquakie, Kansa, and others. With newly researched texts by leading scholars, this book charts the continuum of centuries of artistic tradition and reflects the significant place that Plains Indian culture holds in European history and in the heritage of North America.

Alternative Title

• Artists of earth and sky
• Indiens des plaines.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Great Plains > Exhibitions
• Indian art > Great Plains > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Material culture > Great Plains > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Clothing > Great Plains > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Great Plains > Rites and ceremonies > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Legal deposit, April 2014"--Colophon.
• Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris from April 8 to July 20, 2014; at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City from September 19, 2014 to January 11, 2015; and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from March 3 to May 10, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-317) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Stéphane Martin -- Preface / Julían Zugazagoitia -- Introduction / Gaylord Torrence -- Change and survival on the Great Plains / Colin G. Calloway -- Artists of earth and sky / Arthur Amiotte -- Ancient peoples -- Life on the Great Plains, 1700-1820 -- Cultural florescence, 1820-1860 -- Death of the buffalo, 1860-1880 -- Islands of former ancestral homelands, 1880-1910 -- Lives coming together and apart, 1910-1965 -- Artistic revival in contemporary life, 1965-2013 -- List of works exhibited.

ISBN

• 9782370740021 (Editions Skira)
• 2370740027 (Editions Skira)
• 9782357440791 (Musée du quai Branly)
• 2357440791 (Musée du quai Branly)
• 9780847844586 (Skira Rizzoli : hardcover)
• 0847844587 (Skira Rizzoli : hardcover)

OCLC

879580587

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library