Jonathan Meuli examines differing attitudes towards Northwest Coast material culture as they are found in the structures of oral and written narratives and the built environment.
Jonathan Meuli examines differing attitudes towards Northwest Coast material culture as they are found in the structures of oral and written narratives and the built environment.
Jonatahan Meuli combines both a scholarly and a creative career in his chosen field. he is a lecturer on the history of art at the University of East Anglia, UK, and is also a successful freelance painter, exhibiting and lecturing in England, Europe and Canada. He has been a Henry Moore fellow, and has worked extensively for the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Charitable Trust, owners of the Sainsbury Collection. Jonathan Meuli has also worked for several galleries, and has published a number of acclaimed articles in the fields of art history and anthropology.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Map. Introduction: Part I 'The Carvings on the Houseposts Winked Their Eyes...' - Indigenous Northwest Coast Aesthetics. Part II 'Remember the Sacred Room and its Paintings...' - Indigenous Northwest Coast Art History: Histories of Artistic Innovation. Art History and Politics. Using Art to Remember Words. Mnemonic systems, Sculpture, Architecture, Landscape and Movement. Part II 'How Pregnant With Meaning is Every Carving...' - Collecting Objects and Ascribing Meanings: The Great Collection of Northwest Coast Culture. Culture- and City-building in the Northeastern USA. 'The Desirability of Obtaining Carvings That Have Explanations...' Scientists Collecting the Beautiful. Decoration and Meaning as Commodities. A Short History of Non-meanings. A Raven-rattle That Was Never Collected. Salvage Ethnography and the Collection of 'Meanings'. Finding Meaning Everywhere. The Sort of Meaning That Places House. Part IV 'It Is Deep to Where Most of It Has Sunk...' - Art on the Coast in the 20th Century. Appendix I - Sources, Texts and Literal Translations. Sources for Chapter I, Sources for Chapter II. Diacritics and Lineation. Appendix II - The Cliff Painting of Legaix. Appendix III - Horn Spoons. Bibliography. Index. ex
List of figures. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Map. Introduction: Part I 'The Carvings on the Houseposts Winked Their Eyes...' - Indigenous Northwest Coast Aesthetics. Part II 'Remember the Sacred Room and its Paintings...' - Indigenous Northwest Coast Art History: Histories of Artistic Innovation. Art History and Politics. Using Art to Remember Words. Mnemonic systems, Sculpture, Architecture, Landscape and Movement. Part II 'How Pregnant With Meaning is Every Carving...' - Collecting Objects and Ascribing Meanings: The Great Collection of Northwest Coast Culture. Culture- and City-building in the Northeastern USA. 'The Desirability of Obtaining Carvings That Have Explanations...' Scientists Collecting the Beautiful. Decoration and Meaning as Commodities. A Short History of Non-meanings. A Raven-rattle That Was Never Collected. Salvage Ethnography and the Collection of 'Meanings'. Finding Meaning Everywhere. The Sort of Meaning That Places House. Part IV 'It Is Deep to Where Most of It Has Sunk...' - Art on the Coast in the 20th Century. Appendix I - Sources, Texts and Literal Translations. Sources for Chapter I, Sources for Chapter II. Diacritics and Lineation. Appendix II - The Cliff Painting of Legaix. Appendix III - Horn Spoons. Bibliography. Index. ex
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