Patterned after St. James' award-winning Contemporary Artists, St. James Guide to Native North American Artists profiles 400 prominent artists of the twentieth century. Established and new artists from the U.S. and Canada will be included, as well as major figures who worked at the turn of the century.
Native North American Artists features craftspeople in the visual arts, including painting, architecture, basketry, beadwork, carving, drawing, intallation, jewelry, masks, photography, pottery, printmaking, sculpture, performance art, mixed media and textiles.
Each entry provides a biographical profile; lists individual and group exhibitions, public galleries and museums with works by the artist in permanent collections; includes a bibliography of books and articles by and about the entrant; and presents an authoritative critical perspective on the artist's work written by a specialist. To help readers appreciate the artist's contributions to culture, a representative photograph and artist statement often complements entries.
An introduction by noted scholar W. Jackson Rushing and a guest foreword by Richard W. Hill, Sr., artist, museum director and Native art advocate provide context for appreciating the art and artists profiled.
Featured artists include:
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Each entry includes basic biographical information, a list of exhibitions and galleries housing them, a bibliography of books and articles by and about the artist, and a critical appraisal written by a specialist in the field. Complementing the entries are black-and-white photographs and, occasionally, a statement written by the artists themselves. A meandering, overlong preface and a shorter introduction provide an overview of some issues facing Native American artists and serve as a useful context for the entries of the book.
An index with cross-references for pseudonyms and variant names provides fuller access to the already alphabetized entries. There are also other indexes: a listing by tribe for each artist included in this biocritical resource, a geographic index by country and state or province, an index listing artists by the art medium used, and an index to illustrations reprinted in the text.
Native American Painters of the Twentieth Century: The Works of 61 Artists, by Robert Henkes (McFarland, 1995), covers some of the artists included in the St. James Guide, but its scope is much more narrow because it includes only painters. (A few painters, such as Julie Lankford, Robert Leedom, and Billy Newman, appear only in Henkes' book.) Also, the entries in Native American Painters consist only of a short narrative critique with minimal biographical information integrated into the essay; there are no listings of exhibitions and no bibliographical information.
Specialized art libraries (museums and galleries), most academic libraries, and large public libraries should add the St. James Guide to their reference collections, even if they own Henkes' less comprehensive book. A few high-school libraries that support curricular programs in ethnic studies and/or American art might also consider the resource for their reference collections.
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