Becoming Mary Sully : toward an American Indian abstract Philip J. Deloria

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deloria, Philip Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sully, Mary, 1896-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Sully, Mary.

Modernism (Art)--United States.

Modernism (Art).

Indian art--United States--Themes, motives.

Indian art.

Art and society--United States--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Indian art--Themes, motives.

Indian art--North America.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

xii, 324 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Toward an American Indian abstract

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self-taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also engaged with the experiments in time, space, symbolism, and representation characteristic of early twentieth-century modernist art. And like her great-grandfather Sully was fascinated by celebrity: over two decades, she produced hundreds of colorful and dynamic abstract triptychs, a series of "personality prints" of American public figures like Amelia Earhart, Babe Ruth, and Gertrude Stein." -- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

9780295745053

0295745053

OCLC:

1137243706