In the shadow of the sun : perspectives on contemporary native art /

In the shadow of the sun : perspectives on contemporary native art /

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Imprint:Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c1993.
Description:xiii, 538 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Mercury series
Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service, 0316-1862 ; 124
Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) no. 124.
Subject:
Eskimo art -- Canada.
Indian art -- Canada.
Indian art.
Inuit art.
Canada.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1559060
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Other authors / contributors:Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN:0660140128
Notes:Translation of most of the essays included in the original German publication, Im Schatten der Sonne : Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada / edited by Gerhard Hoffmann. 1988, published to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization's exhibition, shown in Europe and Canada, 1988-1990.
Abstract in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Gerald McMaster
  • 2. The Fourth World and Fourth World Art / Nelson H. H. Graburn
  • 3. "The Whites Are Thick as Flies in Summertime," Indian/White Relations in the Nineteenth Century / Joanne MacDonald
  • 4. Trends in Northwest Coast Indian Art 1880 - 1959: Decline and Expansion / Peter L. Macnair
  • 5. In Search of Things Past, Remembered, Retraced, and Reinvented / Martine Reid
  • 6. Tenuous Lines of Descent: Indian Art and Craft of the Reservation Period / Gerald McMaster
  • 7. The Political, Economic, and Sociocultural Conditions of Life for the Indians of Canada in the Twentieth Century / Peter R. Gerber
  • 8. Indian Artists' Statements Through Time / Viviane Gray
  • 9. The Art of Canada's Indians and the Modern Aesthetic / Gerhard Hoffmann
  • 10. Of Public Concern, the Pensioning of the Visual Arts in Canada Since 1945 / Michael Bell
  • 11. Northwest Coast Indian Art from 1950 to the Present / Karen Duffek
  • 12. "Messages from the Past": Oral Traditions and Contemporary Woodlands Art / Ruth B. Phillips
  • 13. Postmodern Culture and Indian Art / Gerhard Hoffmann
  • 14. Canadian Inuit Culture 1800 - 1950 / Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
  • 15. The History of Inuit Culture / Patricia Sutherland
  • 16. Social, Economic, and Political Transformation Among Canadian Inuit from 1950 to 1988 / Marybelle Mitchell
  • 17. Inuit Art: A History of Government Involvement / Helga Goetz
  • 18. The Aesthetics of Inuit Art: Decoration, Symbolism, and Myth in Inuit Graphics; Material, Form, and Space in Inuit Sculpture; The Context of Modernism and Postmodernism / Gerhard Hoffmann
  • 19. Talking With the Artists / Dorothy Harley Eber
  • 20. Contemporary Inuit Sculpture: An Approach to the Medium, the Artists, and Their Work / Marie Routledge and Ingo Hessel
  • 21. Inuit Textile Arts / Maria Muehlen
  • 22. Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking: Evolution and Artistic Trends, 1958 - 1988 / Odette Leroux.

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