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The Indian Craze – Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915: Objects/Histories

Autor Elizabeth Hutchinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2009
In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, “Indian stores,” dealers, reform organizations, and government Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art and displaying it in domestic nooks called “Indian corners.” Elizabeth Hutchinson identifies collecting as part of a larger “Indian craze,” linking it to other activities such as the inclusion of Native American artefacts in art exhibitions sponsored by museums, arts and crafts societies, and World’s Fairs and the use of indigenous handicrafts as models for non-Native artists exploring formal abstraction and emerging notions of artistic subjectivity. She argues that the Indian craze convinced policymakers that art was an aspect of “traditional” Native culture worth preserving, an attitude that continues to influence popular attitudes and federal legislation.Illustrating her argument with images culled from turn-of-the-century publications, Hutchinson revises the standard history of the mainstream interest in Native American material culture as “art.” While many see this as a development that took place in the Southwest after the First World War, Hutchinson reveals that this cross-cultural conversation occurred earlier and spread across the nation from west to east and from reservation to metropolis. She demonstrates that artists, teachers, and critics associated with the development of American modernism, including Arthur Wesley Dow and Gertrude Käsebier, were inspired by Native art. Native artists were also able to achieve some recognition as modern artists, as Hutchinson shows through her discussion of the Winnebago painter and educator Angel DeCora. By taking a trans-cultural approach, Hutchinson transforms our understanding of the place of Native Americans in modernist culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822344087
ISBN-10: 0822344084
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 88 illustrations, incl. 8 in color
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Objects/Histories


Cuprins

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction 1. Unpacking the Indian Corner; 2. The White Man's Indian Art: Teaching Aesthetics at the Indian Schools; 3. Playing Indian: Native American Art and Modern Aesthetics; 4. The Indians in Kasebier's Studio; 5. Angel DeCora's Cultural Politics Epilogue Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

“The Indian Craze is not only a delight to read; it is a major contribution to American visual cultural studies. Wearing her erudition lightly, Elizabeth Hutchinson participates in and adds appreciably to the transcultural critiques that so many of us are interested in now.” Janet Berlo, co-author of Native North American Art“The Indian Craze is a lucid and compelling account of the entangled histories of Native and European-American aesthetic and intersubjective exchange in the formative years of American modernism. Told with deep historical understanding, it restores subjecthood and agency to Native artists too often deprived of both by the persistence of primitivizing attitudes. Such studies as Elizabeth Hutchinson’s offer a very different, insistently hybrid history of modernism, sensitive to the ethical ambiguities that reside in virtually every instance of uneven encounter between colonizer and colonized. This is a long-awaited contribution to how we understand the complex cultural negotiations attendant on the growing aesthetic value accorded to Native arts around the turn-of-the-century.” Angela Miller, lead author of American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity
"The Indian Craze is not only a delight to read; it is a major contribution to American visual cultural studies. Wearing her erudition lightly, Elizabeth Hutchinson participates in and adds appreciably to the transcultural critiques that so many of us are interested in now." Janet Berlo, co-author of Native North American Art "The Indian Craze is a lucid and compelling account of the entangled histories of Native and European-American aesthetic and intersubjective exchange in the formative years of American modernism. Told with deep historical understanding, it restores subjecthood and agency to Native artists too often deprived of both by the persistence of primitivizing attitudes. Such studies as Elizabeth Hutchinson's offer a very different, insistently hybrid history of modernism, sensitive to the ethical ambiguities that reside in virtually every instance of uneven encounter between colonizer and colonized. This is a long-awaited contribution to how we understand the complex cultural negotiations attendant on the growing aesthetic value accorded to Native arts around the turn-of-the-century." Angela Miller, lead author of American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity

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""The Indian Craze" is a lucid and compelling account of the entangled histories of Native and European-American aesthetic and intersubjective exchange in the formative years of American modernism. Told with deep historical understanding, it restores subjecthood and agency to Native artists too often deprived of both by the persistence of primitivizing attitudes. Such studies as Elizabeth Hutchinson's offer a very different, insistently hybrid history of modernism, sensitive to the ethical ambiguities that reside in virtually every instance of uneven encounter between colonizer and colonized. This is a long-awaited contribution to how we understand the complex cultural negotiations attendant on the growing aesthetic value accorded to Native arts around the turn-of-the-century."--Angela Miller, lead author of "American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity"

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An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century “Indian Craze,” a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism