Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Fall, 1992, pp. 66-73
Description
Author comments on the exhibition mounted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1992 and issues concerning the Aboriginal artistic community in general, such as being the subject or object, rather than the observer.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer, 1986, pp. 1-4
Description
Compares Inuit works to paintings by Chardin and argues that they share common characteristics.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 1-3
Description
Authors compare the methods of production used by the Cape Dorset cooperative to those used in Japan.
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Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 83-85
Description
Review of the Leonora Carrington: The Mexican Years, 1943-1985 exhibit organized by Holly Barnet-Sanchez, essay by Whitney Chadwick, interview by Paul de Angelis, chronology by Salomon Grimberg. The Exhibition was in the Mexico Museum of San Francisco, December 11, 1991 to March 8, 1992.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 36-43
Description
Author looks at how contemporary artists have incorporated aspects of the dominant culture into their works and transformed such elements to suit their purposes.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 30-52
Description
Author discusses the work of two Indigenous pop-artists and how they appropriate iconic mainstream imagery in order to subvert popular narratives and stereotypes in the Star Wars franchise and in the wider film industry.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 1992, pp. 74-80
Description
Discusses the case of Jimmie Durham and the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act that specified what can be represented as Indian art and who is eligible to produce these works.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn, 1992, pp. 74-80
Description
Discusses the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (United States) and the artist's response, as illustrated in his art, is that "authenticity" is another concept designed to keep Native Americans enclosed in "their world" through a label imposed by Euro-Americans.
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 4, Fall/Winter, 1992, pp. 7-13
Description
Looks at the centre, the production of wearable art and the controversy over the suggested use for the wet-surface carving equipment.
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Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017
Refers to the works of Horace Poolaw, Dallin Maybee, Arthur Amiotte, Jay Polite Labor, and Wendy Red Star
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 30-31
Description
Article contains two pieces of art depicting, 'opposing views' of the 1876 Battle of Greasy Grass or the Battle of Little Bighorn involving George Custer.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, 1986, pp. 65-70
Description
Book reviews of:
Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art 1965-1985 by Ralph T. Coe.
A Persistent Vision: Art of the Reservation Days by Richard Conn.
The Song of the Loom: New Traditions in Navajo Weaving by Frederick J. Dockstader.
Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form by Karen Duffek.
Robes of Power: Totem Poles on Cloth Doreen Jensen and Polly Sargent.
Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt.
Describes the significance of some ledger-type Assiniboine drawings by an unknown artist and how they record a lifestyle that has disappeared from the Canadian Plains.
Art Journal, vol. 51, no. 3, Recent Native American Art, Autumn 1992, pp. 59-65
Description
Surveys works of contemporary artists including: Gerald McMaster, Lawrence Paul, Shelley Niro, Bill Powless, Jane Ash Poitras, and Joanne Cardinal-Schubert.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 3, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 59-61
Description
Comments on the reasoning behind the first public exhibition of Pangnirtung weaving in 1972.
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