SONG FROM THE EARTH American Indian Paintings [SOLD]

SONG FROM THE EARTH American Indian Paintings

Jamake Highwater

Publisher: New York Graphic Society, Boston

Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1976. 212 pages, profusely illustrated with 32 color and 130 black-and-white illustrations.

Jamake Highwater, a Blackfeet/Cherokee author, wrote two books on Native American artists and paintings—Song from the Earth in 1976 and The Sweet Grass Lives On in 1980.  We are pleased to offer both of these out-of-print books at this time.

The Sweet Grass Lives On is also on our website in the book section (Item #C4288H).  We are adding Song from the Earth with this posting.  There is only one copy of each book.

Table of Contents

1 Who Speaks to Me, with My Own Voices? The Otherness of Indians

2 The Indian in History: Indians Discover America

3 Song from the Earth: Pre-columbian Art and the Rise of Painting

4 A Renaissance of Indian Paining: The Revival Begins

5 The Early Kiowa Artists: The Flowering of Art in Oklahoma

6 The Founding of The Studio in Santa Fe: Institutionalism Begins

7 The Bacone Period: Indian Art in Transition

8 Contemporary Indian Painting begins: The Institute of American Indian      Arts

9 The Singers of the Songs: Painters in Profile

     Bear’s Heart

     Fred Kabotie

     Allan Houser

     Oscar Howe

     Blackbear Bosin

     Fred Beaver

     Archie Blackowl

     R. C. Gorman

     T. C. Cannon

     Fritz Scholder

10 What Is Indian about Indian Art?

Appendix: Looking at Indian Painting

Travel Notes

Museums and Galleries

Annual Exhibitions

Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index