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Plains Indian art : the pioneering work of John C. Ewers / edited by Jane Ewers Robinson ; preface by Candace S. Greene ; introduction by Evan M. Maurer.
Penn Museum Library E78.G73 E926 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997.
- Series:
- Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 8.
- The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian art--Great Plains.
- Indian art.
- Carving (Decorative arts).
- Picture-writing.
- Indian painting.
- Great Plains.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Social life and customs.
- Indians of North America.
- Manners and customs.
- Animals in art.
- Indian painting--Great Plains.
- Picture-writing--Great Plains.
- Carving (Decorative arts)--Great Plains.
- Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997.
- Ewers, John C.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 203 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- John C. Ewers was one of the leading scholars of Plains Indian cultures, and especially Plains Indian art during the 20th century. He published several important books and essays on the topic, beginning with the award-winning Plains Indian Paintingin 1939, and he was one of the founders of the area of study known as ethnohistory. This, his final work, was begun in the 1990s with the assistance of his daughter, Jane Ewers Robinson, and published posthumously. Here Ewers presents 15 essays and articles about the Plains Indian traditions he found particularly fascinating, including images of the white man in nineteenth century Plains Indian art, the emergence of the named Indian artists in the American west, images of bears, weasels, water monsters, and Spanish cattle in Plains art, Blackfeet picture writing, effigy pipes, pipes for Presidents, Assiniboin antelope-horn headdresses, and collaborations between Plains artists and anthropologists. The essays are illustrated with full-color photos of the art, as well as illustrations and historical photos. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- A century of Plains Indian art studies
- Plains Indian painting : the history and development of an American art form
- Images of the white man in nineteenth-century Plains Indian art
- The emergence of the named Indian artist in the American West
- Notes on the weasel in historic Plains Indian culture
- The awesome bear in Plains Indian art
- Water monsters in Plains Indian art
- Spanish cattle in Plains Indian art
- A century and a half of Blackfeet picture writing
- A unique pictorial interpretation of Blackfoot Indian religion in 1846/1847
- Pipes for the presidents
- Three effigy pipes by an Eastern Dakota master carver
- Assiniboin Antelope-horn headdresses
- Artists' choices
- Plains Indian artists and anthropologists : a fruitful collaboration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 080613061X
- 9780806130613
- OCLC:
- 694172139
- Publisher Number:
- 99945253614
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