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Author:   John Ayre
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9781476688176

ISBN 10:   1476688176
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   20 October 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface by Mary Ann Evans Abbreviations in the References Terminology and Place-Names Introduction: Getting to Houston  1. Early Interest  2. Houston’s Early Life  3. Flying to Port Harrison, 1948  4. Second Sale  5. West Hudson Bay, 1950  6. A Book of Instruction  7. South Baffin Island, 1951  8. Back South, 1951  9. New York and Mexico, 1952 10. Fort Chimo and Cape Dorset, 1952 11. Recovery 12. The North Matters 13. Houstons of the Arctic 14. A Canadian Art 15. Feverish Interest 16. Future Plans 17. Making Inuit Art Betweeen pages 110 and 111 are 8 color plates containing 9 photographs 18. George Swinton and Edmund Carpenter: The Critics 19. Problems of Success 20. Highly Saleable Objects 21. Cape Dorset Experiments 22. Prints in Winnipeg and Japan 23. Back Home, 1959 24. New Yorkers and Tellick Bay 25. Stratford, 1959 26. Breakthrough Prints 27. Exceeding Wildest Hopes, 1960 28. A Summer of Journalists 29. Leaving Cape Dorset, 1962 30. The Canadian Eskimo Art Committee 31. New York Life 32. Escoheag, Rhode Island, 1974 33. Stonington, Connecticut, 1987 34. Cape Dorset, 1992 Appendix: Inuit Artists’ Names by Mary Ann Evans Bibliography Index

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The late John Ayre was an award winning writer and wrote numerous articles on Inuit art for the Inuit Art Quarterly. His degree in cultural anthropology, experience as a literary and art journalist, and personal interest in the Arctic and Inuit art were all brought to bear in his writing of this book.

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