Clifford E. Trafzer

Gerald McMaster

Native American scholars, writers, and leaders examine the art and cultures of Indian peoples from the Arctic to Patagonia and from ancient times to the twenty-first century.

Voices of Indian America

Native Universe

David Penney

This illustrated companion to the exhibition of the same name opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York reveals how the Anishinaabe artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region. Original.

Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes

Before and After the Horizon

Mark Arthur Cheetham

W. Jackson Rushing

Carol Podedworny

McMaster Museum of Art

Robert Houle has been a visionary artist since the beginning of his career. "Native artists," he wrote in 1982, "are committed to involvement in the polemics of modern art. Meaning derives from living in the twentieth century, where painting ranges from realism to abstraction and sculpture varies from shamanism to assemblage." Employing the traditions of modernist painting, particularly as practiced by Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Houle has tenaciously insisted on reciprocity among the aesthetic and cultural specificities with which he engages. After years of breathtaking solo exhibitions, he returns to his first stylistic impulse: abstraction and the parfleche figure. This important publication, with three essays and an artists statement, documents a unique and vital side to Houles innovative artistic practice.

Troubling Abstraction

Robert Houle

More than three hundred photographs complement a collection of essays by a group of leading native American scholars, writers, tribal leaders, and activists that address such topics as Native American history, philosophy, folkways, culture, artwork, religion, and more, divided into three major sections entitled "Our Universes," "Our Lives," and "Our Peoples." Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Gerald McMaster

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