Plains Indian drawings, 1865-1935 : pages from a visual history

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Plains Indian drawings, 1865-1935 : pages from a visual history / edited by Janet Catherine Berlo.

Berlo, Janet Catherine. (Added Author). American Federation of Arts. (Added Author). Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.) (Added Author).

Summary:

This lavish volume is the most comprehensive treatment to date of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Plains Indian drawings. It is published on the occasion of the first extensive exhibition of this material, organized by The Drawing Center, New York, and The American Federation of Arts. Featured are thirty-six artists from the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho tribes, such as Black Hawk, Making Medicine, Wohaw, Little Shield, and White Bull. Many of the artists were previously unknown even to experts in the field, and dozens of the drawings are published here for the first time. The eight essays, four artist statements, and catalogue entries on 153 works provide a wealth of information on Plains Indian culture, religion, and individual artists during the reservation era.

Record details

ISBN: 0810937425
ISBN: 9780810937420
ISBN: 1885444028
ISBN: 9781885444028
Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Publisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts and the Drawing Center, 1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Essays. Drawing and being drawn in : the late nineteenth-century Plains graphic artist and the intercultural encounter / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Encyclopedias of experience : a curatorial dialogue on drawing and drawing books / Janet Catherine Berlo and Gerald McMaster -- Structure and meaning in Cheyenne ledger art / Candace S. Greene -- A brief history of Lakota drawings, 1870-1935 / Janet Catherine Berlo -- In a place of writing / Anna Blume -- The subtle art of resistance : encounter and accommodation in the art of Fort Marion / Edwin L. Wade and Jacki Thompson Rand -- Narrative and landscape in the drawings of Etahdleuh Doanmoe / Marilee Jantzer-White -- The legacy of ledger book drawings in twentieth-century Native American art / W. Jackson Rushing -- Artists' statements. The seen and the unseen form the narrative-- / Colleen Cutschall, Lakota -- Of circularity and linearity in the work of Bear's Heart / Edgar Heap of Birds, Cheyenne-Arapaho -- Paradigms for hope and posterity : Wohaw's Sun Dance drawing / Jane Ash Poitras, Cree-Chipewyan -- Cetan Sapa Tatehila, Black Hawk's love / Francis Yellow, Lakota -- Catalogue. Arapaho -- Cheyenne -- Kiowa -- Lakota.