Makers and markets : the Wright collection of twentieth-century Native American art / edited by Penelope Ballard Drooker ; text by Patricia Capone and Penelope Ballard Drooker ; photographs by Hillel S. Burger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drooker, Penelope B.

Capone, Patricia

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian art--Southwest, New--Catalogs.

Indian art.

New Southwest.

Indian art--North America--Catalogs.

North America.

Wright, William Robert, 1928-1993--Art collections--Catalogs.

Wright, William Robert.

Wright, William Robert, 1928-1993.

Art museums.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology--Catalogs.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1998.

Summary:

This well-illustrated book studies pieces from the Peabody Museum's Wright collection of twentieth-century Pueblo pottery, Navajo and Hopi textiles, and baskets from a range of southwestern and other Native American peoples. The book also discusses the market-influenced environment of modern Native American art, ranging from what some might consider the low end of tourist art multiples to the high end of unique, signed fine art objects.

Makers and Markets describes the changing Indian art collecting environment from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, exploring the world of the modern Indian artist, illustrating concurrent approaches to community and art market ideas, and trends in design and marketing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0873658256

OCLC:

40702479