Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Brown, Steven C.; Macapia, Paul; Seattle Art Museum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295976578 ISBN 13: 9780295976570

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Featuring over two hundred illustrations of Northwest Coast Native American art, examines the chronology shown by changes in design forms and traces style developments from the prehistoric era to the present day.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven C. Brown is associate curator of Native American art at the Seattle Art Museum.

From Library Journal:

Sparkling with over 200 illustrations, 100 of them in color, of the magnificent art of Northwest Coast Native Americans, this book accompanies a traveling exhibition that originated at the Seattle Art Museum. Brown, associate curator of Native American art for the museum, is particularly interested in examining the chronology shown by changes in design forms. He traces the development of the consistent, dramatic style from the prehistoric era through the classic early 19th-century two-dimensional style to the current revival using variations on old themes. His emphasis on details of variation in design makes the text somewhat pedantic; he doesn't define much-used terms like formline and negative space, and he presupposes some knowledge of the culture's history, tribal customs, and mythology. But the art is breathtaking. For college or art libraries or those with collections of Native American materials.?Gay Neale, Southside Virginia Community Coll. Lib., Alberta
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0295976578
• ISBN 13: 9780295976570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216