Guides: ART 235: Pre-Modern Art History: Art of the Americas to 1300

su: (art OR architecture OR painting OR sculpture) AND (america) AND (native OR indians)

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North American Indian art by David W Penney
A illustrated introduction to the history of Native American art, distinguished by its broad coverage and nuanced discussion." "This narrative draws upon Native American history, the testimonies of oral tradition and the latest research in North American archaeology.
Native North American art by David W Penney
Explores the indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.
Art of the Northwest coast by Aldona Jonaitis
Art of the Northwest Coast is a comprehensive survey of the Native arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast, spanning the region from Puget Sound to Alaska, and proceeding from prehistoric times to the present. Incorporating the region's social history with the observations of anthropologists, historians of art, and Native peoples, this rich, vibrant book reveals how a complex web of factors informed these groups' varied responses to the changes and challenges brought about by contact with Europeans.
The transforming image : painted arts of Northwest Coast First Nations by Bill McLennan, Karen Duffek
The Transforming Image brings together some of the most intriguing images, many revealed for the first time in over a hundred years. Karen Duffek's text adds new insights derived from the project, linking painted images to communities, histories, and individual painters.

Native American art by William C. Ketchum, Jr.
Publication Date: 1997
Beautiful photographs of Native American art.
Making Pictures in Stone: American Indian rock art of the Northeast by Edward J. Lenik
ISBN: 9780817380779
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationship to native peoples for recording practical matters or information, as expressions of their legends and spiritual traditions, or as simple doodling or graffiti. The images in this book connect us directly to the Indian peoples of the Northeast, mainly Algonkian tribes inhabiting eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and the lower Potomac River Valley, New York, New Jersey, the six New EnglandStates, and Atlantic Canada. Lenik provides a full range of rock art appearances in the study area, including some dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects.
American Indian art: form and tradition. by Walker Art Center., Minneapolis Institute of Arts., Indian Art Association.
Publication Date: 1972
Forewords / Martin Friedman, Ron Libertus, and Anthony M. Clark -- Enriching daily life : the artist and artisan / Andrew Hunter Whiteford -- Tribal people and the poetic image : visions of eyes and hands / Gerald Vizenor -- Of traditions and esthetics / Martin Friedman -- Rock art / David Gebhard -- Men and nature in Pueblo architecture / Vincent Scully -- Iroquois masks : a living tradition in the Northeast / William N. Fenton -- Woodland Indian art / Robert E. Ritzenthaler -- Plains Indian art / Ted J. Brasser -- Indian art in the Southwest / Frederick J. Dockstader -- Indian arts of the Intermontane region / Richard Conn -- Heraldic carving styles of the Northwest coast / Bill Holm -- Asiatic sources of Northwest coast art / Ralph T. Coe -- Eskimo sculpture / Dorothy Jean Ray.