A New Deal for Native Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Deal for Native Art write by Jennifer McLerran. This book was released on 2022-08-16. A New Deal for Native Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets. In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programs—and how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. She describes federal policies of the 1930s and early 1940s that sought to generate an upscale market for Native American arts and crafts. And by unraveling the complex ways in which commodification was negotiated and the roles that producers, consumers, and New Deal administrators played in that process, she sheds new light on native art’s commodity status and the artist’s position as colonial subject. In this first book to address the ways in which New Deal Indian policy specifically advanced commodification and colonization, McLerran reviews its multi-pronged effort to improve the market for Indian art through the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, arts and crafts cooperatives, murals, museum exhibits, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects. Presenting nationwide case studies that demonstrate transcultural dynamics of production and reception, she argues for viewing Indian art as a commodity, as part of the national economy, and as part of national political trends and reform efforts. McLerran marks the contributions of key individuals, from John Collier and Rene d’Harnoncourt to Navajo artist Gerald Nailor, whose mural in the Navajo Nation Council House conveyed distinctly different messages to outsiders and tribal members. Featuring dozens of illustrations, A New Deal for Native Art offers a new look at the complexities of folk art “revivals” as it opens a new window on the Indian New Deal.
When Art Worked
When Art Worked - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Art Worked write by Roger G. Kennedy. This book was released on 2009. When Art Worked available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Commemorates the achievements of the artists put to work by the government and explores how their art repaired the national sense of self. From publisher description.
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf
Proud Raven, Panting Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proud Raven, Panting Wolf write by Emily L. Moore. This book was released on 2018-12-31. Proud Raven, Panting Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among Southeast Alaska�s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid to Native people during the Depression and to recast their traditional art as part of America�s heritage. Less evident is why Haida and Tlingit people agreed to lend their crest monuments to tourist attractions at a time when they were battling the US Forest Service for control of their traditional lands and resources. Drawing on interviews and government records, as well as the totem poles themselves, Emily Moore shows how Tlingit and Haida leaders were able to channel the New Deal promotion of Native art as national art into an assertion of their cultural and political rights. Just as they had for centuries, the poles affirmed the ancestral ties of Haida and Tlingit lineages to their lands.
The Indian Arts & Crafts Board
The Indian Arts & Crafts Board - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indian Arts & Crafts Board write by Robert Fay Schrader. This book was released on 1983. The Indian Arts & Crafts Board available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
1934
1934 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 1934 write by Ann Prentice Wagner. This book was released on 2009. 1934 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar
