Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

Herausgeber: Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn; Jonaitis, Aldona

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This edited collection focuses on "unsettling" Northwest Coast art studies, bringing forward voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, engage with past and ongoing effects of settler colonialism, and advocate for practices for more accountable scholarship. Featuring authors with a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and methodologies, Unsettling Art Histories offers new insights for the field of Northwest Coast art studies. Key themes include discussions of cultural heritage protections and long-standing defenses of natural resources and territory; re-centering women and the critical role they play in transmitting cultural knowledge across generations through materials, techniques, and creations; reflecting on the decolonization work being undertaken in museums; and examining how artworks function beyond previous scholarly framings as living documents carrying information critical to today's inquiries. Re-examining previous scholarship and questioning current institutional practices by prioritizing information gathered in Native communities, the essays in this volume exemplify various methods of "unsettling" and demonstrate how new methods of research have reshaped scholarship and museum practices."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 185mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780295750705
• ISBN-10: 0295750707
• Artikelnr.: 63301877

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
PART I. Cultural Heritage Protection: Questions of Rights and Authority
A Bear in the Cedar, by Duane Niatum
Chapter 1. The Seward Shame Pole: A Tlingit Countermonument to the Alaska
Purchase
Emily L. Moore
Chapter 2. The Social Life of Stones: Haida hlg¿as7agaa/argillite and the
Making of Inalienable Commodities
Kaitlin McCormick
Chapter 3. Morse Code for Creation: Jim Schoppert's Painterly Language for
a Postmodern Revival
Christopher Green
Chapter 4. From "Artifakes" to "Surrogates": The Replication of Northwest
Coast Carving by Non-Natives
Janet Catherine Berlo and Aldona Jonaitis
PART II. Women's Work: Stories, Art, and Power
One Square Inch, by Lily Hope
Chapter 5. Stl'inll ~ Those with Clever Hands: Presenting Female Indigenous
Art and Scholarship
Jisgang Nika Collison
Chapter 6. Copper Seaweed and Woven Octopus Bags: Shgen George and the Art
of Resilience
Megan A. Smetzer
Chapter 7. Ellen Neel and Carving on the Coast: Three Decades of Change and
Renewal
Lou-ann Ika'wega Neel
PART III. Changing Museums
Let Indigenous Reign, by Ishmael Hope
Chapter 8. In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Rethinking Collections and the
Act of Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver
Sharon Fortney
Chapter 9. The Museum Disappeared: Northwest Coast Art and the Object of
Display
Karen Duffek, Peter Morin, and Karen Benbassat Ali
Chapter 10. From Behind-the-Scenes to the Front of the House: Here & Now:
Native Artists Inspired at the Burke Museum
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Chapter 11. Woosh.Jee.Een, Pulling Together: Repatriation's Healing Tide
Lucy Fowler Williams, with contributions by Robert Starbard
PART IV. Beyond Art
Thoughts on Formline, by Iljuuwaas Tyson Brown
Chapter 12. Soft Robes of Thundering Power: Mountain Goat Fiber Textiles of
the Northwest Coast
Evelyn Vanderhoop
Chapter 13. Sayach'apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest
Denise Nicole Green
Chapter 14. Tlingit Art
Ishmael Hope
Conclusion. Fifty Years Studying Northwest Coast Art: A Personal View
Aldona Jonaitis
Contributors
Index