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The Plains Indians : artists of earth and sky / Gaylord Torrence.
Penn Museum Library E78.G73 T677 2014
Available
Penn Museum Library E78.G73 T677 2014
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torrence, Gaylord.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
- Musée du quai Branly.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Exhibitions.
- Indians of North America.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of North America--Material culture.
- Great Plains.
- Exhibitions.
- Indian art--North America--Exhibitions.
- Indian art.
- North America.
- Indians of North America--Material culture--Great Plains--Exhibitions.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Clothing & dress--Exhibitions.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Rites and ceremonies--Exhibitions.
- Musée du quai Branly--Exhibitions.
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art--Exhibitions.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Musée du quai Branly : Editions Skira : New York, Skira Rizzoli.. [2014]
- Summary:
- "In this exhibition, you will discover objects produced by 135 artists; objects that offer an unprecedented view of the continuity of the aesthetic traditions of the Plains Indians, from the 16th to the 20th century."--Musée du quai Branly brochure.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Gaylord Torrence
- Change and survival on the Great Plains / Colin G. Calloway
- Artists of earth and sky / Arthur Amiotte
- Ancient peoples
- Life on the Great Plains, 1700-1820
- Cultural florescence, 1820-1860
- Death of the buffalo, 1860-1880
- Islands of former ancestral homelands, 1880-1910
- Lives coming together and apart, 1910-1965
- Artistic Revival in comtemporary life, 1965-2013.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-317).
- Published in conjuntion with the exhibition presented at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris (8 April - 20 July 2014), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (19 September 2014 - 11 January 2015), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (3 March - 10 May 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9782370740021
- 2370740027
- 9782357440791
- 2357440791
- 9780847844586
- 0847844587
- OCLC:
- 879580587
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