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Privileging the past : reconstructing history in Northwest coast art Cover Image Book Book

Privileging the past : reconstructing history in Northwest coast art

Ostrowitz, Judith. (Author).

Summary: What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why, when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas, reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses." "Privileging the Past explores intellectual issues raised by postmodern theory, supported by detailed studies of projects that will interest a broad audience of students, historians, museum-goers, and those intrigued by Native American art and cultural history.

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  • ISBN: 0295978147 (U.S. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780295978147 (U.S. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0774807539 (Can. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780774807531 (Can. : acid-free paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
  • Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver, [BC] : UBC Press, c1999.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Expedience and classicism at the Chief Shakes Community House -- The map and the territory in the grand hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization -- Making dance history: Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw performance art at the American Museum of Natural History -- False cognates: looking backward at the latest thing in contemporary Northwest coast art -- The style in which they were imagined.

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Subject: Indian arts Northwest Coast of North America

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 98 .A7 N78 O88 1999 253648 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 98 .A7 N78 O88 1999 254227 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library PNW E 98 .A7 N78 O88 1999 249895 PNW Available -
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