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Northwest Coast Indian Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 145

Northwest Coast Indian Art

  • Categories: Art

The 50th anniversary edition of this classic work on the art of Northwest Coast Indians now offers color illustrations for a new generation of readers along with reflections from contemporary Northwest Coast artists about the impact of this book. The masterworks of Northwest Coast Native artists are admired today as among the great achievements of the world’s artists. The painted and carved wooden screens, chests and boxes, rattles, crest hats, and other artworks display the complex and sophisticated northern Northwest Coast style of art that is the visual language used to illustrate inherited crests and tell family stories. In the 1950s Bill Holm, a graduate student of Dr. Erna Gunther, f...

Land, Spirit, Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Land, Spirit, Power

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Exhibition catalogue for 'Land, Spirit, Power' at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 1992, a collection of contemporary art intended as a response and contribution to current discussions on questions of cultural identity, from the specific perspective of First Nations. Includes three essays, and data on each artist.

Robert Houle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Robert Houle

Saulteaux artist Robert Houle (b.1947) has claimed space and authority for Indigenous representation in contemporary art for more than fifty years. This new publication celebrates his generational influence and coincides with his exhibition Red Is Beautiful, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and touring to the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. A curator, writer, and educator as well as an artist, Houle has made a profound impact. Growing up on the Sandy Bay First Nation/Kaa-wii-kwe-tawang-kak in Manitoba, he was placed in residential school and denied access to his family and traditions. Always fiercely principled, he ha...

Indian Art: Inventing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Indian Art: Inventing

This book is a compilation of art work by 28 artists against the variety of forms that have developed since the 1990s.

Art Et Architecture Au Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1646

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

Screening Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Screening Culture

The lives of Indigenous peoples have long been framed for the outside world by others' cinematic gaze. But during the past thirty years, North America's Indigenous image-makers, particularly in Canada, have used the changing technologies of film, video, television, and computer to present their peoples' histories, identities, and perspectives. This edited collection of essays, conversations, and interviews combines Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices as it sets changing representations of Indigenous people on screen against broader socio-cultural, ideological, and economic considerations.

In the shadow of the sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

In the shadow of the sun

This volume makes available, in English, most of the essays written to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s exhibition of the same name. Not included, are the essays by Gisela Hoffman, Bernadette Driscoll and Elizabeth McLuhan and the exhibition catalogue section which appeared in the original German publication. This book provides an overview of the evolution of contemporary Native Canadian art. Regional styles as well as individual artistic styles are discussed and the various subjects, themes and techniques reflected in the works are examined.

Norval Morrisseau
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Norval Morrisseau

  • Categories: Art

His unique vision first came to public attention more than forty years ago. The life's work of Norval Morrisseau, founder of the "Woodland" or "Legend" style of painting-now known as Anishnaabe painting-is showcased in some sixty works drawn from public and private collections across Canada.

Institute of American Indian Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110
The Indian Art Centre Program
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

The Indian Art Centre Program

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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