Native American Portraits

Author : Nancy Hathaway
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877017578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Portraits written by Nancy Hathaway and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one hundred photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I are featured in this powerful compendium depicting a proud and defeated people. Native American Portraits presents a factual, anecdotal, and visual history of the evolving artistry and technology of a century of photographers, as well as of the tribes whose vanishing trappings and traditions they sought to capture with their craft. The photographers -- William Henry Jackson, Camillus Fly, Carleton Watkins, and Lee Moorhouse, among scores of others -- were intrepid adventurers, fiercely committed to their work, who hauled hundreds of pounds of photographic equipment across the mountains and faced many dangers; their subjects -- including such important warriors as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Red Cloud, Geronimo, and Chief Gall (who led the Indians to victory against Custer) -- appear venerable, dignified, and beaten. Fascinating and provocative, this richly illustrated and painstakingly annotated volume documents the intersection of photography in its infancy and Native American culture in precipitous decline.

Author : Ian West
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780831755164
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Native Americans written by Ian West and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of early photographs of Native Americans, including the Southeast, the Southwest, the plains, plateau and basin, California, the Northwest coast, the subarctic, the arctic, and the Northeast.

Author : Nancy Hathaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Portraits written by Nancy Hathaway and published by . This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits, taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I, feature images of Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and other defeated but proud warriors. Photographers include William Henry Jackson, Camillius Fly, Alexander Gardner, and scores of others.

Author : Benita Eisler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324086X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman written by Benita Eisler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.

Author : Robert John Moore
Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Americans written by Robert John Moore and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era before photography, three painters--Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer--traveled far and wide to record the culture of Native Americans. For the first time in one volume, "Native Americans: A Portrait" presents a major selection of original paintings, drawings, and lithographs by these three artists. More than 1,000 full-color reproductions offer eyewitness accounts of battles, hunts, ceremonies, and daily life.

Author : Gaylord Torrence
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396622
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Native America written by Gaylord Torrence and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark publication reevaluates historical Native American art as a crucial but under-examined component of American art history. The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, a transformative promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes masterworks from more than fifty cultures across North America. The works highlighted in this volume span centuries, from before contact with European settlers to the early twentieth century. In this beautifully illustrated volume, featuring all new photography, the innovative visions of known and unknown makers are presented in a wide variety of forms, from painting, sculpture, and drawing to regalia, ceramics, and baskets. The book provides key insights into the art, culture, and daily life of culturally distinct Indigenous peoples along with critical and popular perceptions over time, revealing that to engage Native art is to reconsider the very meaning of America. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits from North American Indian Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wayne Youngblood
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 0785835598
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward S. Curtis Portraits written by Wayne Youngblood and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Edward S. Curtis was a prolific photographer and recorder of Native American culture. This is a collection of his most moving, cultural portraits.

Author : W. Jackson Rushing III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136180036
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Art in the Twentieth Century written by W. Jackson Rushing III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time The contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to address key issues for Native American art, including symbolism and spirituality, the role of patronage and musuem practices, the politics of art criticism and the aesthetic power of indigenous knowledge. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations - including Cherokee, Lakota, Plains Cree, and those of the PLateau country - emphasise the importance of traditional stories, myhtologies and ceremonies in the production of comtemporary art. Within great poignancy, thye write about recent art in terms of home, homeland and aboriginal sovereignty Tracing the continued resistance of Native artists to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century argues forcefully for Native art's place in modern art history.

Author : Curtis Edward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764900280
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Portraits written by Curtis Edward and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The forty-eight reproductions in this deck of Knowledge Cards have been selected from approximately 1,700 first-generation Curtis photoprints in the collections of the Library of Congress. The cards also supply text about the customs, ceremonies, life-styles, arts, and crafts of various tribes of North American Indiand." -- Back of box.