This exciting investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. The richness of Native American art is emphasized through discussions of basketry, wood and rock carvings, dance masks, and beadwork, alongside the contemporary vitality of paintings and installations by modern artists such as Robert Davidson, Emmi Whitehorse, and Alex Janvier. Authors Berlo and Philips fully incorporate substantive new research and scholarship, and examine such issues as gender, representation, the colonial encounter, and contemporary arts. By encompassing both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial,Native North American Artshows the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social, political, and economic systems within Native North American societies.
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America Art History and Native art What is 'art'? Western discourses and Native American objects Modes of appreciation: curiosity, specimen, artefact, and art What is an Indian? Clan, community, political structure, and art Cosmology The map of the cosmos The nature of spirit Dreams and the vision quest Shamanism Art and the public celebration of power The power of personal adornment 'Creativity is our tradition': innovation and tradition in Native American art Gender and the making of art
Chapter 2: The Southwest The Southwest as a region The ancient world From the colonial era to the modern Pueblos Navajo and Apache arts
Chapter 3: The East The East as a region Hunting cultures, burial practices, and Early Woodlands art forms Mississippian art and culture The cataclysm of contal#]
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