The Art of the Ancestors: Antique North American Indian Art - Hardcover

Everett Shaw, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0934324336 ISBN 13: 9780934324335

Verlag: Aspen Art Museum,US, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Shaw George Everett Brown Steven C Lanford Benson

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"�Shaw� has gathered the best representations of Native pottery, blankets, clothing, accessories, ceremonial and hunting gear, cradles, and more in a lavishly illustrated volume called "Art of the Ancestors."" "The art-book quality along with the exceptional color photos and the informative introductory essays make this an especially attractive and useful introduction or reference for Native American art and cultural objects."

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The masterworks featured here range from clothing, accessories, and ceremonial and hunting gear to blankets, cradles, storage vessels, and utensils. Each was crafted of such diverse materials as quills, ivory, hide, wood, fibres, stone, clay, and even glass beads imported by European traders. George Everett Shaw, Steven C Brown, Benson L Lanford, and Bill Mercer examine how American Indians' existence developed around the challenges and benefits of the climate, terrain, flora, and fauna of their locales. Their art objects embody the spiritual devotion - inseparable from their relationship with the natural world - that even now shapes their lives. Whether decorated with abstract patterns or with representations of humans and animals, such pieces were vehicles for passing down beliefs and customs before written languages existed. Thus we can appreciate them not only for their beauty and the skill and ingenuity of their makers but also in the context of the cultures from which they sprang.

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• Verlag: Aspen Art Museum,US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0934324336
• ISBN 13: 9780934324335
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180