Indian country : the art of David Bradley /

Indian country : the art of David Bradley /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2014]
Description:	143 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bradley, David, -- 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation. Bradley, David, -- 1954- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10340548

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Other uniform titles:	Harjo, Suzan Shown, Bradley, David, 1954- Works. Selections. Verzuh, Valerie K. Indian country.
ISBN:	9780890136010 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0890136017 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-143).
Summary:	"David Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa) creates narrative paintings that layer and comment ironically upon people, places, events, histories, cultural realities, and the times in which the artist lives. Bradley's art has become a recognized voice from Indian Country, exploring questions of identity, self-determination, and self-portrait, giving vent to issues about which he is passionate. Indian Country compiles the styles and media the artist has worked in over the course of his career, including printmaking, sculpture, and mixed-media, to redirect the gaze of American life from an Indian point of view. Saturated with a powerful Native voice and evocative visual description of Indian experience, Bradley's paintings interweave historical and political truths, social and personal narrative, and cultural critique. Native people take center stage in world art, challenging imbedded assumptions, reconsidering history and its icons. For three decades the post-modern trickster, David Bradley is the outsider confronting the dangers and challenges of his world with paradox, incongruity, fantasy, and humor." -- Back cover.
Standard no.:	40025046313

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Summary:	For the past three decades, artist David Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa) has been a recognized voice from Indian Country, exploring and confronting through his art questions of identity, self-determination, and self-portrait, and bringing to the surface issues about which he is passionate. His ironic, vivid, vibrant paintings are saturated with the artist's powerful and evocative depictions of the Indian experience and perspective. Bradley's paintings interweave historical and political truths, social and personal narrative, and cultural critique. Native people take center stage in world art, challenging imbedded assumptions, reconsidering history and deconstructing its icons. A post-modern trickster, Bradley redirects the gaze of American life from an Indian point of view--an outsider observing the world with paradox, incongruity, fantasy, and humor.
Physical Description:	143 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-143).
ISBN:	9780890136010 0890136017