Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
Navajo Sand Paintings: The Importance of Sex Roles in Craft Production
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Parezo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 125-148
Description
A look at the commercialization of art form and how the Navajo's flexible division of labor allowed for both men and women to participate in its productions for economic gain.
Journal of Canadian Art History, vol. 16, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10-29
Description
Comments on paintings that juxtapose 'primitive' against 'civilized'. A summary in French follows the article.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 10.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 1-41
Description
Explores how a number of nineteenth-century paintings perpetuated and/or challenged the culturally dominant ideas of "Orientalism" and "domestic ideology".