Not Native American Art : Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janet Catherine Berlo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--United States.

Art and society.

Cultural property--United States.

Cultural property.

Indian art--North America.

Indian art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Other Title:

Not Native American Art

Place of Publication:

Seattle University of Washington Press 2023

Summary:

The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity.

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:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780295751375

0295751371