First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art - Softcover

National Museum Of The American Indian (U. S.) George Gustav Heye Cente; Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House (New York, N. Y.)

9780971916326: First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971916322 ISBN 13: 9780971916326

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 2004

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

pp. 263, Colour photographs of the artifacts

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Bruce Bernstein is assistant director for cultural resources and Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree) is deputy assistant director for cultural resources, both at the National Museum of the American Indian. Donald Kuspit is professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Margaret Dubin is a scholar and lecturer. The artists, curators, and scholars whose discussions contributed to this book include Arthur Amiotte (Lakota), Janet Berlo, J. J. Brody, Robert Davidson (Haida), Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota), Tom Hill (Seneca), Frank Ettawageshik (Odawa), Harry Fonseca (Maidu), Mary Jane Lenz, Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Ann McMullen, and Peter Macnair.

From Booklist:

The Dikers' extensive collection of Native art is integrated in their Manhattan home with modern American and European painting and sculpture so that Apache baskets are juxtaposed with paintings by Rauschenberg and Miro. When the Dikers offered to display their Native art at the New York facility of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the curators jumped at the chance to allow the public to view these beautiful objects, not as ethnological artifacts but as true works of art. The exhibit, in place for a year, is well documented in this impressive catalogue, an amalgam of scholarly essays and meticulous color photographs of both traditional and modern Native art. The viewer readily perceives that each object embraces the seven aesthetic principles--idea, emotion, intimacy, movement, integrity, vocabulary, and composition--that the curators agreed are integral to any work of art. The exhibit and dazzling catalogue perfectly fulfill the goal of the NMAI to bring Native art out of the darkness of "overcrowded cases" into the galleries, where its aesthetic beauty can better be appreciated. Deborah Donovan
Copyright � American Library Association. All rights reserved

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.