"Art for a New Understanding, an exhibit organized by crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, charts the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada. This accompanying book features catalog entries on fourty-one artists and includes over one hundred full-color illustrations. The essays contributed by scholars, critics aand the curators consider the complexities of traditional and modern practices, and the presence and absence of Indigenous voices in the general dialogue about contemporary art. As both a survey of Native North American art and consideration of Indigenous artists within contemporary art more broadly, Art for a New Understanding radically expands and repositions the narrative of American art since 1950." -- from the book jacket.

Contents: Director's Forward, by Rod Bigelow; Acknowledgement; Art for a New Understanding, by Mindy N. Besaw, Candice Hopkins, Manuela Well-Off-Man; Indigenous Art as a Beacon of Survival, heather ahtone; Inclusivity at Midcentury: George Morrison, Oscar Howe, and Lloyd Kiva New, Jessica L. Horton; "I Am an Artist Who Happens to Be an Indian": Working through Modernism in the 1970s and Early 1980s, Richard William Hill; The Fourth World and the Second Wave: on (Non)Encounters Between Native Women and Feminism, Aruna D'Souza; Indigenous Bodies: Native Performance and Temporalities of Being, Amelia Jones; Indian Art for Modern Living, Paul Chaat Smith; Mindy N. Besaw, Ashley Holland, Jen Padgett, Manuela Well-Off-Man; Lloyd Kiva New, George Morrison, Oscar Howe, Fritz Scholder, Daphne Odjig, T.C. Cannon, Kay WalkingStick, Norval Morrisseau, Spiderwoman Theater, Hock E Aye Vi, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Luna, Edward Poitras, Jolene Rickard, Carl Beam, Lawrence, Paul Yuxweluptun, Anita Fields, Norman Akers, Brian Jungen, Isuma and Zacharies Kunuk, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Rebecca Belmore, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Steven Yazzie, Melissa Cody, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Nicholas Galanin, Shan Goshorn, Kent Monkman, Andrea Carlson, Virgil Ortiz, James Lavadour, Walter Scott, Dana Claxton, Olivia Whetung, Jeffrey Gibson, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Athena LaTocha, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Holly Wilson, Yatika Starr Fields, Works in the Exhibition, Additional Works Illustrated, Selected Bibliography, Illustration Credits, Contributors, Index