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Not Native American art : fakes, replicas, and invented traditions / Janet Catherine Berlo ; foreword by Joe D. Horse Capture.
Penn Museum Library E98.A7 B485 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlo, Janet Catherine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian art--North America.
- Indian art.
- Cultural property--United States.
- Cultural property.
- Authenticity (Philosophy).
- Tradition (Philosophy).
- Art and society--United States.
- Art and society.
- traditionalism.
- North America.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Following more than a decade of research on various kinds of inauthentic Native American art, Janet Berlo presents a series of cases that demonstrate the range and complexity of the issues at stake. From Native and non-Native artists commissioned by Native communities to make replicas of original Native artistic works to non-Natives creating Native style art for commercial gain to uses of pastiche and obfuscation in creating artistic objects for various purposes, Berlo looks at misrepresentation and replication in nuanced and careful detail"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: of "Santa fakes" and other illusions
- Authenticity and Its discontents: what Is "real" Native American art?
- Cultural cross-dressers: a long history of imitating Indians
- Replication and reproduction on the Great Plains of nostalgia
- The deliberate forgery, the accidental fake, the visual fiction, and the replica
- Cross-cultural replication and Native revitalization: techniques of remembering
- Conclusion: vexed identities and the "destruction of mimicry" in the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (287-319) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Berlo, Janet Catherine. Not Native American art
- ISBN:
- 9780295751368
- 0295751363
- OCLC:
- 1348285190
- Publisher Number:
- 99994913052
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