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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This book traces the evolution of narrative art among Native nations of North America's Great Plains region, from historical hides, muslins, and ledger books to more than 50 contemporary works commissioned by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Illustrating everything from war deeds and ceremonial events to pop culture, the selected artworks are as diverse as the individuals who created them. Plains narrative art took shape through...
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: Winter counts, pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past, marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The widespread Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the stars fell," the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important collection of Lakota winter...
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, artists and curators Joe Baker (Choctaw) and Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree) bring together the work of fifteen artists of mixed Native/non-Native heritage from the United States, Canada, and Mexico to create a mini-museum of the here and now in contemporary Native art. Personal and political, this art and the accompany texts raise issues that resonate far beyond the American art scene--questions about...
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
For Native people, land has multiple meanings. It is home, culture and identity, but it also represents violence, isolation and loss. The artists in Off the Map reinvent and examine landscapes from this complex perspective, creating work that exists outside of Western landscape traditions. Their work also defies common expectations of Native American art in both its form and content.