AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION [SOLD]

AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION

An Exhibition Organized by:

               Walker Art Center

               Indian Art Association

               The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

22 October—31 December 1972

Catalog Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York

Softcover, 154 pages, beautifully illustrated in color and black and white

CONTENTS

Foreword

Martin Friedman, Ron Libertus, Anthony M. Clark

Enriching Daily Life: The Artist and Artisan

Andrew Hunter Whiteford

Tribal People and the Poetic Image: Visions of Eyes and Hands

Gerald Vizenor

Of Traditions and Esthetics

Martin Friedman

Rock Art

David Gebhard

Men and Nature in Pueblo Architecture

Vincent Scully

Iroquois Masks: A Living Tradition in the Northeast

William N. Fenton

Woodland Indian Art

Robert E. Ritzenthaler

Plains Indian Art

Ted J. Brasser

Indian Art in the Southwest

Frederick J. Dockstader

Indian Arts of the Intermontane Region

Richard Conn

Heraldic Carving Styles of the Northwest Coast

Bill Holm

Asiatic Sources of Northwest Coast Art

Ralph T. Coe

Eskimo Sculpture

Dorothy Jean Rau

Catalogue of the Exhibition

From the Foreword

 “In preparing this publication, the intention was that it serve not only as a catalog of the exhibition, but that it function as a survey of current attitudes and information on many aspects of Indian art and culture.  In this spirit, we have invited a number of distinguished specialists to contribute essays.  The catalogue represents the diverse opinions of ethnographers, museum curators, an architectural historian, and a poet.  No attempt has been made to cover systematically every style-type or geographic area of Indian art production; rather, we have asked these specialists to write about their particular areas of interest.  Some of the essays, speculative in nature, deal with esthetic attitudes; others describe with great precision various stylistic manifestations and object-types associated with Indian art; still others stress the strong relationship of Indian art to daily and ritual life.  This publication is designed for use not only by the general public but by students of Indian art and culture; and is intended as a reference to supplement the distinguished books and catalogues on Indian art now in print.”

“There has been almost no inclusion of this magnificent esthetic expression in our national consciousness—a loss of the only truly indigenous heritage this nation possesses.  It is certainly not too late to preserve these early art forms and their contemporary manifestations.”

- Frederick J. Dockstader