Indians in color : native art, identity, and performance in the new West / Norman K. Denzin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denzin, Norman K., author.

Contributor:

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in art.

Ethnicity in art.

Indians in popular culture--United States.

Indians in popular culture.

Indian art--20th century.

Indian art.

Indian art--21st century.

Taos Society of Artists.

Institute of American Indian Arts.

United States.

Physical Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]

Summary:

In Indians in Color, noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West, Denzin zeroes in on painting movements in Taos, New Mexico over the past century. Part performance text, part art history, part cultural criticism, part auto ethnography, he once again demonstrates the power of visual media to reify or resist racial and cultural stereotypes, moving us toward a more nuanced view of contemporary Native American life. In this book, Denzin, contrasts the aggrandizement by collectors and museums of the art created by the early 20th century Taos Society of Artists under railroad sponsorship with that of indigenous Pueblo painters; shows how these tensions between mainstream and Native art remains today; and, introduces a radical postmodern artistic aesthetic of contemporary Native artists that challenges notions of the "noble savage." Book jacket.

Contents:

Native art, identity and performance in the postmodern West

Disneyland Indians, Paris, circa 2014

Copper-colored primitives

Taos Indians on canvas

Postmodern Indians on canvas

Indian painters, patrons, and Wild West shows: a new imaginary

Coda: Back to the future

Appendix A: Time Line: Staging and marketing American Indians, and federal Indian policy

Appendix B: The Taos Society of Artists and their descendants.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781629582788

1629582786

OCLC:

908192680