Native art of the Northwest Coast : a history of changing ideas
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- ISBN: 9780774820509 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
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xxxvi, 1081 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 26 cm - Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Most chapters consist of an introductory essay followed by excerpts from the literature"--Page xxxv. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Interpreting cultural symbols of the People from the Shore -- Ḥilth Hiitinkis -- Haida cosmic -- From explorers to ethnographers, 1770-1870 -- Thresholds of meaning -- Objects and knowledge -- "That which was most important" -- Anthropology of art -- Going by the book -- The dark years -- Surrealists and the New York avant-garde, 1920-60 -- North Coast art and Canadian national identity, 1900-50 -- Art/craft in the early twentieth century -- Welfare politics, late salvage and indigenous (in)visibility, 1930-60 -- Form first, function follows -- Democratization and Northwest Coast art in the modern period -- History and critique of the "renaissance" discourse -- Starting from the beginning -- Shifting theory, shifting publics -- Value added -- "Where mere words failed" -- Art for whose sake? -- "Fighting with property" -- Museums and Northwest Coast art -- Collaborations -- Pushing boundries, defying categories -- Art claims in the age of Delgamuukw -- Stop listening to our ancestors -- NWC on the up-load -- The material and the immaterial across borders. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Merritt Campus | E78 N78 N37 2013 (Text) | 37100012560301 | Regular Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
Vancouver Campus | E78 N78 N37 2013 (Text) | 37100022012558 | Regular Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |