Native North American Art

Description

Ranging from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over many centuries and across a vast number of regions, the authors introduce the extraordinary variety of Native American arts to a new audience.
Their book encompasses both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial, and establishes the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social, political, and economic systems within Native North American societies.
It concludes brilliantly with the powerful and exciting resurgence of Native North American arts and scholarship in the last few decades.