Native Moderns - American Indian Painting, 1940-1960

Informationen zum Autor Bill Anthes Klappentext A study of Native American art and artists that represent a crucial and formative, though rarely recognized, aspect of American modernism. Zusammenfassung This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgments xxix 1. Art and Modern Indian Policy 1 2. The Culture Brokers: The Pueblo Paintings of José Lente and Jimmy Brynes 30 3. "Our Inter-American Consciousness": Barnett Newman and the Primitive Universal 59 4. The Importance of Place: The Ojibwe Modernism of Patrick DesJarlait and George Morrison 89 5. Becoming Indian: The Self-Invention of Yeffe Kimball 117 6. "A fine painting . . . but not Indian": Oscar Howe, Dick West, and Native American Modernism 142 Postscript: Making Modern Native American Artists 171 Notes 183 Bibliography 217 Index 227

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bill Anthes
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.11.2006
• EAN: 9780822338505
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3850-5
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 184 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte