The Early years of Native American art history : the politics of scholarship and collecting
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The Early years of Native American art history : the politics of scholarship and collecting
University of Washington Press , UBC Press, c1992
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- : Canada
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"A McLellan book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: US ISBN 9780295972022
Description
This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collecto and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, app
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: Canada ISBN 9780774804332
Description
This collection of essays deals with the development of Native Americanart history as a discipline rather than with particular art works orartists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators,dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understandingand misunderstanding, appropriation and reappropriation whichcharacterized their transactions. The essays examine major figures, artforms, institutions, and events of the early years when Native Americanartworks were first collected, studied, and displayed.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: The Formative Years of Native American ArtHistory
2. Franz Boas, John Swanton, and the New Haida Sculpture at theAmerican Museum of Natural History
3. New Questions for 'Old Things': The Brooklyn Museum'sZuni Collection
4. Louisa Keyser and the Cohns: Mythmaking and Basket Making in theAmerican West
5. 'The Artist Himself': The Salish Basketry Monograph andthe Beginnings of a Boasian Paradigm
6. Lila Morris O'Neale: Ethnoaesthetics and the Yurok-KarokBasket Weavers of Northwestern California
7. Marketing the Affinity of the Primitive and the Modern: Rened'Harnoncourt and 'Indian Art of the United States'Contributors
Index
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