American Indian Baskets I: 1,500 Artist Biographies [SOLD]

American Indian Baskets I: 1,500 Artist Biographies

by Gregory Schaaf

Condition: good with dust jacket

From the Jacket:

The Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures is proud to present the sixth volume in our series. Each book is organized alphabetically like a. telephone book. Looking up a particular artist takes only seconds. The purpose of the series is to introduce people to American Indian artists and to their fine arts.

This volume profiles over 1,500 American Indian basketmakers over the past two centuries from the Southwest, Great Basin and California ..... We actually recorded over 5,000 Indian basketmakers and more keep coming weekly to our research center in Santa Fe. This book was created with the cooperation of American Indian artists. Through personal interviews, archival research and artist surveys, information was collected in 25 fields, including the artist's tribe, clan, active years, type of baskets, lifespan, family relationships, education, teachers, students, awards, exhibitions, collections, forms, techniques, materials, favorite designs, and publications. Many artists completed a personal statement .... Some wrote or narrated autobiographical statements.