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Water, wind, breath ; Southwest Native art in the Barnes Foundation / edited by Lucy Fowler Williams ; with texts by Tony R. Chavarria, TahNibaa Naataanii, and Ken Williams Jr. ; and contributions by Robert Bauver and Laurie D. Webster.
Penn Museum Library E78.S7 B37 2022
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LIBRA E78.S7 B37 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes Foundation, issuing body, publisher, host institution.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barnes Foundation.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Exhibitions.
- Indians of North America.
- Rugs--Collectors and collecting.
- Rugs.
- Indian art--Collectors and collecting.
- Indian art.
- Indian arts.
- New Southwest.
- Exhibitions.
- Indian arts--Southwest, New--Exhibitions.
- Indian art--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Indian art--Collectors and collecting--United States.
- Rugs--Collectors and collecting--Catalogs.
- Navajo silverwork.
- Pueblo pottery.
- Navajo blankets.
- Art--Catalogs.
- Art.
- Barnes Foundation--Catalogs.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 211 pages : color illustrations, color map, portraits ; 29 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : The Barnes Foundation ; [2022]
- Summary:
- This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative art practices he saw there, formed a collection of Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. "Water, Wind, Breath" illuminates the materials, forms, and designs of the objects as they relate to Pueblo and Navajo histories and ideas. The book blends postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives, introducing readers to living artistic traditions filled with purpose, intention, and a deeply embedded spirituality that connects places, practices, and Native identities. Works by contemporary Native American artists are juxtaposed with historic pieces, illuminating the connections between heritage traditions and modern practices.
- Contents:
- Foreword and Acknowledgments
- Map
- In the shadows of paradise / Lucy Fowler Williams
- Chasing the dawn
- Tony R. Chavarria
- Pueblo pottery: meditations on clay mother's gift / Tony R. Chavarria
- Checklist of Pueblo pottery in the Barnes Foundation
- Navajo textiles: weaving a space of great peace / TahNibaa Naataanii
- A Navajo "slave" blanket / Lucy Fowler Williams
- Dating the Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation / Laurie D. Webster
- Checklist of Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation
- Southwest Native jewelry / Ken Williams Jr.
- Chief Ignacio of the Weeminuche Band / Lucy Fowler Williams
- Silver and Southwest Native art / Robert Bauver
- Checklist of the Southwest Native jewelry in the Barnes Foundation
- Appendix: summary of Southwest Native textile dye analyses / David A. Wenger, PhD
- Notes:
- Catalog from an exhibition, organized by and held at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 20-May 15, 2022--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0300264127
- 9780300264128
- OCLC:
- 1297840968
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