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Publié par

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03 novembre 2006

EAN13

9780822388104

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Between 1940 and 1960, many Native American artists made bold departures from what was considered the traditional style of Indian painting. They drew on European and other non-Native American aesthetic innovations to create hybrid works that complicated notions of identity, authenticity, and tradition. This richly illustrated volume focuses on the work of these pioneering Native artists, including Pueblo painters Jose Lente and Jimmy Byrnes, Ojibwe painters Patrick DesJarlait and George Morrison, Cheyenne painter Dick West, and Dakota painter Oscar Howe. Bill Anthes argues for recognizing the transformative work of these Native American artists as distinctly modern, and he explains how bringing Native American modernism to the foreground rewrites the broader canon of American modernism.In the mid-twentieth century, Native artists began to produce work that reflected the accelerating integration of Indian communities into the national mainstream as well as, in many instances, their own experiences beyond Indian reservations as soldiers or students. During this period, a dynamic exchange among Native and non-Native collectors, artists, and writers emerged. Anthes describes the roles of several anthropologists in promoting modern Native art, the treatment of Native American "Primitivism" in the writing of the Jewish American critic and painter Barnett Newman, and the painter Yeffe Kimball's brazen appropriation of a Native identity. While much attention has been paid to the inspiration Native American culture provided to non-Native modern artists, Anthes reveals a mutual cross-cultural exchange that enriched and transformed the art of both Natives and non-Natives.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

03 novembre 2006

EAN13

9780822388104

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

NATIVE MODERNS

Objects/Histories: Critical Perspectives on Art, Material Culture, and Representation

A series edited by

Nicholas Thomas

Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation.

NATIVE MODERNS American Indian Painting, 1940–1960

Bill Anthes

Duke University Press Durham and London 2006

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 

Typeset in Minion by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

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CONTENTS

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Preface

Acknowledgments

 . Art and Modern Indian Policy

 . The Culture Brokers: The Pueblo Paintings of José Lente and Jimmy Byrnes

 . ‘‘Our Inter-American Consciousness’’: Barnett Newman and the Primitive Universal

  . The Importance of Place: The Ojibwe Modernism of Patrick DesJarlait and George Morrison

 . Becoming Indian: The Self-Invention of Yeﬀe Kimball

 . ‘‘A ﬁne painting . . . but not Indian’’: Oscar Howe, Dick West, and Native American Modernism

Postscript: Making Modern Native American Artists

Notes

Bibliography

Index

AUTHOR’S NOTE

           in chapter  have not been reproduced. These images represent ceremonies that are sacred to the Pueblos. Lente’s paintings are reproduced in Elsie Parsons,Isleta Paint-ings, edited by Esther Schiﬀ Goldfrank (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, ), and are collected with Parsons’s papers at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Byrnes’s paintings are collected at the School of American Research in Santa Fe.

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