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The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (McLellan Books) [Hardcover]

Janet Catherine Berlo (Editor)

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Series: McLellan Books | Publication Date: September 1992

This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collecto and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, app

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About the Author

Janet Catherine Berlo is a professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

Hardcover: 244 pages
Publisher: University of Washington Press (September 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0295972025
ISBN-13: 978-0295972022
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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This review is from: The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (McLellan Books) (Hardcover)

This anthology illustrates the core problems in Native North American Art History by showing the paradoxes in its founding methodology. The essays deal directly with early scholars' and collectors' cultural barriers to understanding their subjects. The book provides examples of how to question the idealogical bases of what we often accept as the truth regarding the work.

I've found it to be immensely useful in a course that surveys the field; students develop a better appreciation for the work by studying the wider implications of ethnography and collecting. In particular, Marvin Cohodas' essay on Louisa Keyser often opens the way to new levels of understanding the contradictions in the discipline.

Anyone with a serious interest in native art should read this collection.

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