Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form (Museum Note, No 19)

Duffek, Karen

ISBN 10: 0774802634 / ISBN 13: 9780774802635

Published by University of British Columbia Press, 1970

About this Item

Unmarked text. Edge wear on cover and a small corner crease. Illustrated primarily in black-and-white. 58p. Measures 8x10 inches. William Reid Jr. (1920-1998), also known as Iljuwas, was a Haida artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. This book, an insightful account of his life and work as an artist, innovator, and ambassador of Haida art, was the catalog for an exhibit at the University of British Columbia Musuem of Archaeology curated by William McClennan.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form (Museum Note, No 19)
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774802634
• ISBN 13: 9780774802635
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 9 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Artists

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Synopsis

According to eminent French anthropologist Levi-Strauss, Reid "brought Northwest Coast art to the world scene, into dialogue with the whole of mankind." In this artistic biography, Karen Duffek gives an account of Bill Reid's life and work and of his role as artist, innovator, and ambassador of Haida art. After describing the processes by which Reid came to reconstruct the formal rules of a complex artistic tradition, Duffek focuses on his mastery of new techniques, particularly in making jewellery, techniques which others now emulate. In the key chapter "Beyond the Essential Form," she uses Reid's own categories of his work as "copies, adaptations and explorations," to give a candid appraisal of his artistic achievements -- from massive poles to gold boxes, from intricate bracelets to the great bronze Killerwhale statue.

About the Author

Karen Duffek is a research associate at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.