Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art
By Judith Ostrowitz.
Description
What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why, when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past, Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas, reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses.Ostrowitz examines several different art forms―two very different architectural constructions, a dance performance, and modern sculptures an...
ISBN(s)
0295978147, 9780295978147
