The Early Years of Native American Art History
The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- Native American, Native American Studies, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774804332
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $55.00
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Description
This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, appropriation and reappropriation which characterized their transactions. The essays examine major figures, art forms, institutions, and events of the early years when Native American artworks were first collected, studied, and displayed.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Janet Catherine Berlo is a professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
