Overview

The Northwest Coast of North America has long been recognized as one of the world's canonical art zones. This volume records and scrutinizes the history of how and why this has come about. A work of critical historiography, it makes accessible for the first time in one place a broad selection of the 250 years of writing on Northwest Coast art. The contributors - leading scholars, writers, and artists - provide perspectives on the diverse intellectual traditions that have influenced, stimulated, and clashed with each other. In unsettling the conventions that have shaped the idea of Northwest Coast Native art, this book joins the lively, often heated, and now global, debates about what constitutes Native art and who should decide.

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Author:   Jennifer Kramer ,  Charlotte Townsend-Gault ,  Ki-Ke-In
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 6.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.155kg
ISBN:  

9780774820493

ISBN 10:   0774820497
Pages:   960
Publication Date:   08 August 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Idea of Northwest Coast Native Art / Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ki-ke-in 1 Interpreting Cultural Symbols of the People from the Shore / Daisy Sewid-Smith 2 Hilth Hiitinkis -- From the Beach / Ki-ke-in 3 Haida Cosmic / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas 4 From Explorers to Ethnographers, 1770-1870 / Ira Jacknis 5 Thresholds of Meaning: Voice, Time, and Epistemology in the Archaeological Consideration of Northwest Coast Art / Andrew Martindale 6 Objects and Knowledge: Early Accounts from Ethnographers, and Their Written Records and Collecting Practices, ca. 1880-1930 / Andrea Laforet 7 That Which Was Most Important : Louis Shotridge on Crest Art and Clan History / Judith Berman 8 Anthropology of Art: Shifting Paradigms and Practices, 1870s-1950 / Bruce Granville Miller 9 Going by the Book: Missionary Perspectives / John Barker 10 The Dark Years / Gloria Cranmer Webster 11 Surrealists and the New York Avant-Garde, 1920-60 / Marie Mauze 12 Northwest Coast Art and Canadian National Identity, 1900-50 / Leslie Dawn 13 Art/Craft in the Early Twentieth Century / Scott Watson 14 Welfare Politics, Late Salvage, and Indigenous (In)Visiblity, 1930-60 / Ronald W. Hawker 15 Form First, Function Follows: The Use of Formal Analysis in Northwest Coast Art History / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse 16 Democratization and Northwest Coast Art in the Modern Period: Native Emissaries, Non-Native Connoisseurship, and Consumption / Judith Ostrowitz 17 History and Critique of the Renaissance Discourse / Aaron Glass 18 Starting from the Beginning / Marianne Nicolson 19 Shifting Theory, Shifting Publics: The Anthropology of Northwest Coast Art in the Postwar Era / Alice Marie Campbell 20 Value Added: The Northwest Coast Art Market since 1965 / Karen Duffek 21 Where Mere Words Failed : Northwest Coast Art and Law / Douglas S. White 22 Art for Whose Sake? / Ki-ke-in 23 Fighting with Property : The Double-Edged Character of Ownership / Jennifer Kramer 24 Museums and Northwest Coast Art / Aldona Jonaitis 25 Collaborations: A Historical Perspective / Martha Black 26 Pushing Boundaries, Defying Categories: Aboriginal Media Production on the Northwest Coast / Kristin L. Dowell 27 Art Claims in the Age of Delgamuukw / Charlotte Townsend-Gault 28 Stop Listening to Our Ancestors / Paul Chaat Smith 29 NWC on the Up ... Load: Surfing for Northwest Coast Art / Dana Claxton 30 The Material and the Immaterial across Borders / Charlotte Townsend-Gault Works Cited Index

Reviews

This work is an anthology, akin to improvisational jazz - embroidered around a core theme - but allowing every contributor remarkable latitude, creativity, and individuality. Subtitled a history of changing ideas, it indeed questions many long-held assumptions in the field, and posits fresh notions on contemporaneity. It also works to suggest what might be appropriate, respectful, and well-informed means of appreciating, sharing, and studying ceremonial objects, and the Native Northwest cultures which imbued them with life...it is rare indeed that one encounters a book with the capacity to make the reader feel woefully uninformed, while simultaneously tempering with the unflinchingly illustrative personal narratives of Native elders, Haida manga, and thought-provoking arguments on cultural patrimony...to the degree that any criticism can be made of this volume, it would only be that its sheer size may deter the casual observer who sees it on a shelf. This would truly be a shame, since its wealth of information, multiplicity of perspectives, diversity of opinion, and review of historical literature would make it a terrific resource for any library. -- Michelle Paquette, Circulation, Periodicals, and Reserves Specialist, Frick Fine Arts Library ARLIS/NA Reviews This volume balances solid, modem scholarship with an anthology of earlier writings. It will be indispensable for anyone with a scholarly interest in Native American art, and very important for anyone interested in the art and culture of indigenous communities. Summing Up: Essential. -- N. Anderson, emeritus, University of California, Riverside CHOICE, March 2014 The scale of this undertaking is unprecedented in the art historical and anthropological literature of the Northwest Coast and, more broadly, in regard to Indigenous cultural expressions in North America and beyond ... The depth of research contained within its covers and the commitment to multivocality, interdisciplinarity, and consultation, are groundbreaking. -- Megan A. Smetzer, Department of Art History, Capilano University Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review (RACAR), August 2014

Author Information

Charlotte Townsend-Gault is a professor in the Department of Art History and a faculty associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Jennifer Kramer is an associate professor of anthropology and a curator, Pacific Northwest, at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Ki-ke-in is a Nuuchaanulth historian, poet, and creator of many things, with forty years' experience as a speaker and ritualist. Contributors: John Barker, Judith Berman, Martha Black, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Alice Marie Campbell, Paul Chaat Smith, Alice Marie Campbell, Dana Claxton, Gloria Cranmer Webster, Leslie Dawn, Kristin L. Dowell, Karen Duffek, Aaron Glass, Bruce Granville Miller, Ronald W. Hawker, Ira Jacknis, Aldona Jonaitis, Jennifer Kramer, Ki-ke-in, Andrea Laforet, Andrew Martindale, Marie Mauze, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Marianne Nicolson, Judith Ostrowitz, Daisy Sewid-Smith, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Scott Watson, and Douglas S. White

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