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Billie Kukshuk: "I use carving as a way to defer things that are unsettling in life"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Simeonie Kunnuk
Billie Kukshuk
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 18-19
Description
Brief interview with a carver from Arviat.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
A Celebration of the Arts in Saskatoon - 1995.
Documents & Presentations
Description
Program relating to art work used in the newly-renamed The Centre at Circle and Eighth in Saskatoon, formerly the Circle Park and Wildwood malls. Aboriginal artists and themes are featured; project coordinator is Cecilia Cote.
Contemporary Native Art II: A Bibliography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence Abbott
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 98-103
Description
Bibliography of Indigenous artwork and critical engagement.
Cross-Cultural Lines of Inquiry: The Drawings of Pitseolak Ashoona
Theses
Author/Creator
Christine Lalonde
Description
Canadian Art History (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1995.
"Eloquent Representatives:" A Study of the Native American Figure in the Early Landscapes of Thomas Cole, 1825-1830
Theses
Author/Creator
Vernon Scott Dimond
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1998
First Nations Culture: Who Knows What?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 23, no. 1, [Monopolies of Knowledge in the University and Society], Winter, 1998, pp. [31-?]
Description
Questions about art and whether it should be referred to in the western sense or whether art is the repository and communicator of those with culturally specific knowledge.
How Can We Understand Inuit Art?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christine Lalonde
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, Fall, 1995, pp. 6-14
Description
Comments on the unsuitability of Western art history approaches to the critical analysis of Inuit art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 6.
The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women
Alternate Title
The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. October 9, 1997-January 11, 1998
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy L. Benco
Museum Anthropology, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, September 1998, pp. 66-69
Description
Review of an exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, which featured more than 150 and 50 ceramic objects created by 28 Native American women.
The Living Web: Contemporary Expressions of California Indian Basketry
Theses
Author/Creator
Margaret Susan Mathewson
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Quilt Culture: Tracing the Pattern
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Pauline Mortensen
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Book review of: Quilt Culture edited by Cheryl B. Torsney and Judy Elsley.
Click on link to read review.
Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art
E-Books
Author/Creator
George F. MacDonald
W. Richard West
Bruce Bernstein
Gerald McMaster
Paul Chaat Smith ... [et al.]
Where Sea and Land Meet: Historical Northwest Coast Native Settings in the Art of Gordon Miller and Bill Holm
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Canadian Museum of History
Description
Virtual exhibition features portrayals of traditional cultures of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Nuxalk, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Salish peoples.
Wilderness, Modernity and Aboriginality in the Paintings of Emily Carr
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerta Moray
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 43-65
Description
Discusses how Emily Carr confronts Aboriginal cultural change and challenges the authority of Native traditions in her work.