Remix : new modernities in a post-Indian world

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Remix : new modernities in a post-Indian world / edited by Joe Baker and Gerald McMaster.

Baker, Joe, 1946- (editor.). McMaster, Gerald, 1953- (editor.). Heard Museum. (Added Author). National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.). George Gustav Heye Center. (Added Author).

Summary:

"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 the meaning of ethnic and racial identity in an increasingly global society; the tension between self-expression and the templates of mass culture; and individuals' freedom to adapt or reject elements of tradition without losing their claim on the past.

Remix artist Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo) explores parallels between skateboarding culture and traditional tribal life. Kent Monkman (Cree) appropriates 19th-century romantic landscapes to bring out the perversity that underscores pop cultural representations of early relationships between Native Americans and European settlers. Anna Tsouhlarakis, of Navajo and Greek heritage, challenges stereotypes through role reversal in a series of ethnic dances. They are joined in this iconoclastic, often witty artistic revolution by Fausto Fernandez (Mexican/American), Luis Gutierrez, (Mexican/American), David Hannan (Metis), Gregory Lomayesva, (Hopi/Hispanic), Brian David Kahehtowanen Miller (Mohawk), Franco Mondini-Ruiz (Mexican American/Italian), Nadia Myre (Anishinaabe), Alan Natachu (Zuni), Hector Ruiz (Kickapoo/Mexican American), Kade L. Twist, (Cherokee), Bernard Williams (African American/American Indian), and Steven Yazzie (Navajo)."--Pub. desc.

Record details

ISBN: 9781933565101
ISBN: 1933565101
Physical Description: 96 pages : (chiefly color) illustrations ; 28 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian Editions ; 2007.
Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

General Note:: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, from October 6, 2007, to April 27, 2008, and at the George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, in New York, New York, from May 26 through September 30, 2008"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (page 95).
Formatted Contents Note:: Dustinn Craig -- Brian Miller -- Hector Ruiz -- Fausto Fernandez -- Franco Mondini-Ruiz -- Anna Tsouhlarakis -- Luis Gutierrez -- Kent Monkman -- Kade Twist -- David Hannan -- Nadia Myre -- Bernard Williams -- Gregory Lomayesva -- Alan Natachu -- Steven Yazzie.

The challenge of this moment / Frank H. Goodyear, Jr. -- On the edge / Frank Goodyear, Jr. & W. Richard West, Jr. -- Interventions : making a new space for indigenous art / Joe Baker -- Native identity in an age of hybridity / Eleanor Heartney -- Introductions : mixing it up / Gerald McMaster -- Artists' profiles -- Intersections : Broadway and Central / John Haworth.