Understanding Native Art of the Northwest Coast
An essential book: Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
During the past few years, I have begun to be more interested in understanding the native art of the northwest coast as art; some months ago, I found this little treasure of a book that has helped me to take steps towards doing just that. A number of my forthcoming posts will summarize what I have been able to learn of this fascinating art form from this short volume by Hilary Stewart.
By way of background, I should mention that Stewart’s book, which concentrates on two dimensional art, has already been summarized on the internet at Native Online, so I will not be doing a detailed summary here. An excellent personal essay on the appreciation of northwest coast native art can be found at Bruce Byfield’s blog.
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February 3rd, 2010 @ 6:42 pm
[...] I: Understanding Native Art of the Northwest Coast Part II: The Ovoid Part III: U-forms Part IV: S-forms and Split U-forms Part V: The Negative Space: [...]
May 2nd, 2010 @ 9:03 pm
[...] been for me the most difficult. This is probably because the weight of the examples of his work in Looking at Native Art of the Northwest Coast tends towards the more abstract and “chopped [...]
June 18th, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
[...] The ovoids to which Reid refers, including the central body ovoid which contains the face are “compressed into circles” as Hillary Stewart remarks in her remarks about this artwork in her book Looking at the Indian Art of the Northwest Coast. [...]