Since its inception in 1989, the museum has added contemporary Native art and objects to its collections, across all genres. Indigenous Motivations highlights some of the most important, interesting, and amusing of these works, Brief, lively essays discuss why contemporary Native people continue to make art, and why museums collect it. It is the art itself, however, that steals the show. Never-before-published photographs convey the beauty and vitality of these newest treasures in the museum's marvelous collection.
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Since its inception in 1989, the museum has added contemporary Native art and objects to its collections, across all genres. Indigenous Motivations highlights some of the most important, interesting, and amusing of these works, Brief, lively essays discuss why contemporary Native people continue to make art, and why museums collect it. It is the art itself, however, that steals the show. Never-before-published photographs convey the beauty and vitality of these newest treasures in the museum's marvelous collection.
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Very good. cover rub marks and scratches. minor edge and corner wear. minor page corner wear. no marks on text or illustrations. 80 pages. 11" x 8 1/2". NMIA Editions. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Indigenous Motivations on view at the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in New York, July 2006 through 2007. There are 1 or more color photographs on almost every page. The catalog contains the essays: Foreword: Eclectic abundance by W. Richard West, Jr.; Introduction: Native-made: art, culture, and commerce in the twentieth century by John Haworth; Why create? Why collect? by Bruce Bernstein; See America first: tradition, innovation, and Indian country arts by Ann McMullen; Wet-earth memories by Cynthia L. Chavez; Museum dance: Native art as social critique by Kathleen Ash-Milby; Homeland insecurity by Paul Chaat Smith; Change and resistance in the Andean cultural dynamic by Ramiro Matos.
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New. 1933565039. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 80 pp.; 88 illus. --with a bonus offer--
