NATIVE VISIONS; EVOLUTION IN NORTHWEST COAST ART FROM THE EIGHTEENTH THROUGH THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. [Native Visions; Evolution In Northwest Coast Art from the 18th Through the 20th Century.]

Brown, Steven C. (text). Paul Macapia (photographer). Seattle Art Museum.

ISBN 10: 0295976586 / ISBN 13: 9780295976587

Published by Seattle, WA and London: The Seattle Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998., 1998

About this Item

xii, 216 pages. Large paperback: H 30.25cm x L 22.75cm. Black paper covers rubbed with slight wear/curling at fore-edge corners; slight scuff at spine heel. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds (1.36 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0295976586.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NATIVE VISIONS; EVOLUTION IN NORTHWEST COAST ART FROM THE EIGHTEENTH THROUGH THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. [Native Visions; Evolution In Northwest Coast Art from the 18th Through the 20th Century.]
• Publisher: Seattle, WA and London: The Seattle Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295976586
• ISBN 13: 9780295976587
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

Masks, bowls, bentwood boxes, and weavings from Native artists of the Northwest Coast grace museums around the world. Northwest Coast art embodies a highly flexible tradition, reinterpreted by individuals in each generation, as is evidenced by artifacts collected from the area over the last two centuries. This richly informative book includes photographs of more than 160 objects from Seattle area private collections and the Seattle Art Museum, grouped chronologically to illustrate evolutionary changes within the Northwest Coast art tradition.
This is a tradition of great antiquity which also remains vital and alive today in the work of the best contemporary Northwest Coast Native artists. Among the extraordinary artworks illustrated in Native Visions are archaeological artifacts and the earliest documented Northwest Coast objects, collected in the eighteenth century, along with numerous pieces by the nineteenth-century artist Charles Edenshaw, masks and totem pole models by Willie Seaweed, and an unusual gold sculpture by Bill Reid.

About the Author

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