Shifting grounds : landscape in contemporary Native American art / Kate Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Kate, 1966- author.

Series:

[Art history publication initiative books]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes in art.

Indian art--North America--Themes, motives.

Indian art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Summary:

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous art A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers-and settlers-into the territories of the old and new worlds. In the twentieth century, abstract expressionism transformed painting to encompass something beyond the visual world, and, later, minimalism and the Land Art movement broadened the genre of landscape art to include sculptural forms and site-specific installations. In Shifting Grounds, art historian Kate Morris argues that Indigenous artists are expanding and reconceptualizing the forms of the genre, expressing Indigenous attitudes toward land and belonging even as they draw upon mainstream art practices. The resulting works evoke all five senses: from the overt sensuality of Kay WalkingStick's tactile paintings to the eerie soundscapes of Alan Michelson's videos to the immersive environments of Kent Monkman's dioramas, this art resonates with a fully embodied and embedded subjectivity. Shifting Grounds explores themes of presence and absence, survival and vulnerability, memory and commemoration, and power and resistance, illuminating the artists' engagement not only with land and landscape but also with the history of representation itself.

Contents:

The lay of the land

The emergent tradition of Native American landscape painting

Beyond the horizon : postmodern perspectives on the Native landscape

Centering : site-specific and land-based art practices

The embodied landscape.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295744827

0295744820

OCLC:

1056200868