First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art
By N. Y.) Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House (New York.
Description
"First American Art" celebrates the rich aesthetic traditions of North American Indians through a series of concepts that define the aesthetic realm in Native American art. The key concepts of ideas, emotion, movement, integrity, intimacy, composition, and vocabulary were chosen at a recent gathering of Native and non-Native artists and scholars, and are used in examining this extraordinary collection. The works included here, from many tribal traditions across Canada and the United States, are manifestations of the cultures from which they spring. They add individual or tribal po...
ISBN(s)
0971916322, 9780971916326
