Earth diplomacy : Indigenous American art, ecological crisis, and the Cold War / Jessica L. Horton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton, Jessica L., author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and diplomacy.

Indian art--United States--20th century.

Indian art.

Art, Modern--Political aspects.

Art, Modern.

Cultural diplomacy--United States--History--20th century.

Cultural diplomacy.

Propaganda in art.

Cold War--Social aspects--United States.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 386 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In Earth Diplomacy, Jessica L. Horton reveals how Native American art in the mid-twentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. She focuses on a group of artists including Pablita Velarde, Darryl Blackman, and Oscar Howe who participated in exhibitions and lectures abroad as part of the United States's Cold War cultural propaganda. Horton emphasizes how their art modeled a radical alternative to dominant forms of statecraft, a practice she calls "earth diplomacy:" a response to extractive colonial capitalism grounded in Native ideas of deep reciprocal relationships between humans and other beings that govern the world. Horton draws on extensive archival research and oral histories as well as analyses of Indigenous creative work including paintings, textiles, tipis, adornment, and artistic demonstrations. By interweaving diplomacy, ecology, and art history, Horton advances Indigenous frameworks of reciprocity with all beings in the cosmos as a path to transforming our broken system of global politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

More-than-human kinship or The Family of Man?

Rebalancing the Cold War. Diné sandpainting and sand mining

Diné weavers, earth mothers, and trans-Indigenous ecofeminism

Tipis and domes. Modeling the Blackfeet cosmos at a World Fair

Oscar Howe's "Peace Pipe" modernism

Artist-diplomat-vampire.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Horton, Jessica L. Earth diplomacy.

ISBN:

9781478059493

1478059494

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