Description
Book SynopsisExamines how members of Native American and Canadian First Nation groups situate their art in contemporary global environments, creating a different kind of nexus between the requirements of Native communities and the forms of public display that are of interest to worldwide audiences.
Trade Review". . . each chapter stands alone as a good underpinning for any researcher interested in exploring any of the areas she discusses specifically."
-- Meghan Glass * Journal of Folklore Research *
"Interventions merits our attention not only as a work on Native American art but also for its contribution to the broader question of how cultural actors assert themselves on a world stage without sacrificing their commitment to community values."
-- Elizabeth Hutchinson * Museum Anthropology Review *
"In this timely, important book, Ostrowitz presents the ways Native American artists stay true to specific cultural territories while at the same time moving beyond them to engage with the world community..A particular strength of this book is its versatility-one many consider it in its entirety, or use select chapters as insightful, current readings for courses in art history, museum studies, and visual anthropology. Recommended."
* Choice *
"Interventions is an admirable effort to reframe in theoretically sophisticated, relational, and global—rather than essentialist—terms the ongoing effort by native artists to claim and maintain sovereignty."
* caa.reviews *
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction--Interventions: Native American Art for Far-Flung Territories
1 The World Is as Wide as the Imagination: Northwest Coast Art Projects Exceed Territory
2 Concourse and Periphery: Planning the National Museum of the American Indian
3 Dancing as Clan, Nation, and World-System at Celebration
4 The Good Reader of Contemporary Native American Art
5 Performing Race / Imagined Space: Native American Art in Electronic Media
Artistic Intervention and Strategic Practice: An Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
