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[2023]
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175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
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"Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the diversity of Native American individual, regional, and cultural identities. At the same time, these works share a worldview informed by thousands of years of reverence, study, and concern for the land. Through a variety of practices--including...
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Profiles pioneering artist and chef Jim Denevan, founder of Outstanding in the Field, a radical alternative to the conventional dining experience. The documentary intimately reveals Denevan's artistic and culinary gifts with land art in epic geometric formations alongside grand dinners in beautiful natural settings. Instead of bringing the food to the restaurant, Outstanding in the Field has brought the restaurant to the food since 1999. Hosted at...
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[2021]
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371 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
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"Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art brings together contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art that transcend the category of "art" or "artifact" and embody distinct ways of knowing and being in the world. Dozens of Indigenous artists and community members visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia to engage with these objects and...
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c2008
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143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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"NeoHooDoo, a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in the late 1960s, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion. This book examines the work of thirty-three artists, including Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Jose Bedia, Rebecca Belmore, and James Lee Byars, who began using ritualistic practices during the 1970s and 1980s as a way of reinterpreting aspects...
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c2005
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160 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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"Different Views in Hudson River School Painting explores the art and artists who pioneered America's first native style of art and looked to the country's landscape for inspiration and meaning. Judith Hansen O'Toole's commentaries on artists' works and writings alongside reproductions of 120 paintings illuminate the aesthetic and philosophical principles of the Hudson River School painters. O'Toole discusses the shared iconography used by these painters,...
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2012
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319 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm.
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"Illustrator by day, surrealist by night, Ted Geisel created a body of previously little-known work during his leisure hours that he called his 'Midnight Paintings,' and which is now known as 'The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.' This irrepressible and soulful collection redefines Ted Geisel as an iconic American artist. For sixty years, his 'Secret Art' allowed Geisel to expand his artistic boundaries without the confines and pressures of commercial deadlines...
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c2006
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93 p. : col. ill. ; 20 x 27 cm.
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This collection of work by both Native and non-Native artists speaks of the complexity of Native American historical and cultural influences in contemporary culture. Rather than focusing on artists who attempt to maintain strict cultural practices, it brings together a group of artists who engage the larger contemporary art world and are not afraid to step beyond the bounds of tradition. Focusing on a group of 10 artists who came of age since the...
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