Museum note. 18, Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian image / Marjorie M. Halpin ; foreword by Michael M. Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halpin, Marjorie M., 1937-

Contributor:

Shadbolt, Jack, 1909-1998.

University of British Columbia. Museum of Anthropology.

Series:

Museum note (Vancouver, B.C.) ; no. 18.

Museum note ; no. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shadbolt, Jack, 1909-1998.

Shadbolt, Jack.

Indian art--Northwest Coast of North America--Influence.

Indian art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press in association with the U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jack Shadbolt was inspired in his formative years by his contact with Emily Carr and with her brooding works portraying the remnants of Indian villages against the overwhelming wilderness. He made sketches of Indian artefacts and the Cowichan Reserve in the 1930s, but it was only after World War II that elements of Indian art began to show up in his style. Marjorie Halpin finds in the changes in the way Indian forms occur in Shadbolt's paintings an appropriate expression of the changing attitudes of British Columbians to Native society and the political will the Native people now manifest. The place of Indian motifs in Shadbolt's painting can be broadly correlated with the cultural quickening of Indian society in recent years. They reveal his emotional sympathy with Kwagiutl, Haida, and Tlingit forms and his deep response to the Indians' spiritual and historic presence in the British Columbia environment.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

In Search of Freedom

From Primitivism to Place

Jack Shadbolt's journal, 24 February 1985

Act of Art

Cultural Transformations

Jack Shadbolt's journal, 9 July 1985

Lenders to the Exhibition

List of Paintings and Artifacts

Bibliography

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Published in association with an exhibition that opened at the Museum of Anthropology on June 17, 1986.

Bibliography: p. 55-56.

ISBN:

9786613226303

9781283226301

1283226308

9780774856997

0774856998

OCLC:

243616511