Native American Art in the Twentieth Century

Taylor & Francis

Tracing the political context of Native American art production from the 1890s to the present and engaging with a range of concepts and issues such as the influence of spirituality in Native art and the struggle for artistic self-determination. > \nThis illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time\nThe contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to address key issues for Native American art, including symbolism and spirituality, the role of patronage and musuem practices, the politics of art criticism and the aesthetic power of indigenous knowledge. The artist contributors, who represent several x