Painful Beauty - 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 Painful Beauty write by Megan A. Smetzer. This book was released on 2021-07-27. Painful Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women’s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S’eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women’s artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast.
Tlingit
Tlingit - 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 Tlingit write by David Hancock. This book was released on 2003. Tlingit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new look at the Tlingit. The author weaves personal observations in with historical and cultural references to give a lively account of these artistic native peoples. When you visit southeast Alaska you encounter the Tlingit Indians and their very rich lands, diversified culture and wondrous art forms. You can visit from cruise ships, from the Alaska Ferry system, from private boats, from the air, or by following the highway systems though Hyder, Skagway or Haines. The richness of the Tlingit culture flows from the incredible diversity and abundance of the surrounding seas: its fish, whales and sea life, the prolific clam beaches, and the incredible wealth from the spawning fish that feed the bears and eagles and nutrify the dense coniferous forest. The ease with which the natives could extract a good living provided much extra time to devote to developing an extraordinarily rich culture and a prolific art, as well as the warring and slave trading that set the northwest coast peoples apart from the other more food-deprived North American native peoples. This book will give you a glimpse into the richess of their culture and art and afford you some understanding how the Tlingit evolved as part of this productive land.
Tlingit Art
Tlingit 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 Tlingit Art write by Maria Bolanz. This book was released on 2003. Tlingit Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea creatures, birds, and legendary and human figures, successfully combining symbolism and realism. This book examines the social and artistic relevance of the Tlingit carvings and relates many of the fascinating North American Indian legends upon which some of the carvings are based.
Art of the Northern Tlingit
Art of the Northern Tlingit - 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 Art of the Northern Tlingit write by Aldona Jonaitis. This book was released on 1986. Art of the Northern Tlingit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An overview of the art-related theories of American and European scholars, artists, historians and social scientists, which are then refocused on Tlingit art and culture. Illustrated with 70 black and white photographs.
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 2018-11-20. 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 on the histories represented by 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. Supported by the Jill and Joseph McKinstry Book Fund Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/proud-raven-panting-wolf
