Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (McLellan Endowed)
Description
The field of Native American art history, and our idea of what comprises Indian art itself, were molded largely by policies of the museums and institutions that established their ethnological collections in the second half of the nineteenth century.Objects housed in the great natural history museums--collected and seen first as natural history specimens and later as “primitive art”--have long been considered to be normative Native American art, rather than as representative of a long and changing history, and collectors’ biases against Euro-American influenced work, touris...
ISBN(s)
0774804335, 9780774804332
