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Leon Polk Smith : hiding in plain sight.

LIBRA N6537.S6166 A4 2021
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996.
Pardue, Diana F., curator, essayist.
Baker, Joe, 1946- curator, essayist.
Taylor, Tobi, editor.
Heard Museum, organizer, host institution.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996--Exhibitions.
Smith, Leon Polk.
Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996--Influence--Exhibitions.
Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996.
Heard Museum.
Indian art--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.
Indian art.
Indian painting--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.
Indian painting.
Painting, Abstract--United States--Exhibitions.
Painting, Abstract.
Travel.
Indians of North America--Material culture.
Color-field painting.
United States.
Color-field painting--United States--Exhibitions.
Indian Territory--Exhibitions.
Indian Territory.
Indian art--Indian Territory--Exhibitions.
Indians of North America--Material culture--Indian Territory--Exhibitions.
Indians of North America.
Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996--Travel--New Mexico.
Smith, Leon Polk, 1906-1996--Interviews.
Heard Museum--Exhibitions.
New Mexico.
Hard-edge painting--United States--Exhibitions.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Oklahoma--Indian Territory.
Local Subjects:
Hard-edge painting--United States--Exhibitions.
Genre:
Interviews.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm
Manufacture:
Phoenix, Arizona : O'Neil Printing : Roswell Bookbindery.
Other Title:
Hiding in plain sight
Place of Publication:
[Phoenix, Arizona] : Heard Museum, [2021]
Summary:
"'Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight' expands the interpretation of Smith's work beyond the predominant Eurocentrism criticism to include his ties to Indigenous America. Growing up on Chickasha lands in Depression-era Oklahoma, and later, while working in Santa Fe, Smith would have been exposed to numerous Indigenous creative traditions. By exploring the impact of late-nineteenth-century Southwestern, Plains, and Prarie Indian creative traditions on Smith's work, and then pairing his paintings and works on paper with examples from these traditions, including beadwork and ribbonwork, 'Hiding in Plain Sight' offers insight into, and context about, the under-examined influence of American Indian creative expression on Smith's work and, by extension, on American modernism"--Pages 11-12.
Contents:
Director's foreword / David M. Roche
Leon Polk Smith Foundation history and acknowledgments / John B. Koegel, Chair & Patterson Sims, President
Leon Polk Smith: place has no distance / Joe Baker
Indian Territory: the birthplace of extraordinary / Dwanna L. McKay
Leon Polk Smith in New Mexico 1944-1945 / Diana F. Pardue
Territorial works: plates
Mapping modernism: intersections of place and space / heather ahtone
Stella objects: the paintings of Leon Polk Smith / Dana Miller
Leon Polk Smith: plates / [Leon Polk Smith]
An interview with Leon Polk Smith / Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Territorial works: checklist
Leon Polk Smith: checklist
Author biographies
References
Acknowledgments: Heard Museum
Board of Trustees, Heard Museum 2020-2021.
Notes:
Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition "Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight", organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, and held February 5, 2021-May 31, 2021.
Co-curated by Diana F. Pardue and Joe Baker.
Edited by Tobi Lopez Taylor.
Includes endnotes and bibliographical references (pages 186-187).
Cited in:
Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (January 31, 2021) http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx
ISBN:
9780934351973
093435197X
OCLC:
1235738291

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