Showing North American Indian Art by David W. Penney

Paperback. Pub Date: June 2004 Pages: 232 in Publisher: THAMES Info & HUDSON This timely new book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America from the those of withancient cultures such as Adena. Hopewell. Mississippian. and Anasazi to the work of modern artists like Earnest Spybuck. Fred Kabotie. Dick West. TC Cannon. and Gerald McMaster. The text is organized geographically and draws upon the testimonies of oral tradition. Native American history. and the latest research in North American archaeology.Recent art historical scholarship has helped restore. to a large degree. some understanding of the identities and cultural roles of Native American artists and the social contexts of the objects they created. Native American art is often discussed simply as a cultural production rather than the work of individual artists who made objects to fufill social and cu...