Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2018
ISBN 978-1-68226-080-7
"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
ITEM 2018.029 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Prototype for New Understanding – Brian Jungen
Mirror Shield Project – Cannupa Hanska Luger
Untitled – Donald Judd
Instructor In Green – T.C. Cannon
At the Edge of America – T.C. Cannon
Collector #5 – T.C. Cannon
In Our Language – Hock E Aye Vi
In Our Language – Edgar Heap of Birds
Artifact Piece – James Luna
What We Want, What We Need – Jeffrey Gibson
Radiant Tushka – Jeffrey Gibson
Indian Land – Fritz Scholer
Monster Indian – Fritz Scholer
Indian with a Beer – Fritz Scholer
Black and White Patterned Forms – George Morrison
Geometric Vertical Forms – George Morrison
Group – George Morrison
Umine Wacipi – Oscar Howe
War and peace Dance – Oscar Howe
Wounded Knee Massacre – Oscar Howe
Dance of the Heyoka – Oscar Howe
The Great Waves – Katsushika Hokusai
Nanabajou and his daughter – Daphne Odjig
Big Horn Gives to a Calf – Daphne Odjig
Mischef, Indian Land Series – Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Untitled – Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade – Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Chief Joseph series – Kay WalkingStick
Spirit Center II – Kay WalkingStick
Fringe; Shanawdithit – Rebecca Belmore
Taxonomy of the European male – Kent Monkman
History is painted by victors – Kent Monkman
Time Warp – Carl Beam
Burying the Ruler – Carl Beam
Columbus Chronicles – Carl Beam
Leadership – Jolene Rickard
Scorched Earth – Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Result of New Contact – Norman Akers
Maliglutit – Isuma and zacharias Kunk
Let's Dance – Anna Tsouhlarakis
Draw me a Picture – Steven Yazzie
World Travelver – Melissa Cody
Orange Curl – Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Daydreaming of a world discovered by the Wesr – Nicholas Galanin
So Long as these Waters Run – Shan Goshorn
ink Babel – Andrea Carlson
Dryvr – Virgil Ortiz
Shake – James Lavadour
Symbols of paradise – Walter scott
Reflections 4 – Olivia Whetung
Untitled – Athena LaTocha
Slow Scrape – Tanya Lukin Linklater
Companion Species – Marie Watt
One Fish Two Fish – Holly Wilson
Tent Metaphor – Yatika Starr Fields
Rainbow – Edward Poitras
Offensive/Defensive – Edward Poitras
"23 Contemporary Indian Artist" – Lloyd Oxendine
What the Earth Knows – Anita Fields
Elements of Being – Anita Fields
Alien Conquest – Norman Akers
Return from Exile – Bobby C. Martin
Vayda – Cara Romero
Composition, Black and Red – Henri Matisse
Composition VII – Wassily Kandinsky
Cherokee Syllabary – Lloyd Kiva New
Fly, Fly, Fly – Alex Janvier
Who is your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism – Paula Gunn Allen
Sun, Moon & Feather – Spiderwoman Theatre
Reveb-Ber-Ber-Rations – Spiderwoman Theatre
untitled textile – Harrison Burnside
Cultural Belongings – Dana Claxton
Headdress – Dana Claxton
The Vanishing Race-Navaho – Edward S. Curtis
Artifact Piece, Revisited – Erica Lord
Mother Earth – Norval Morrisseau
Jackson Pollock
Ameila Jones
Richard William Hills
William Pietz
Jean Fisher
Lucy Lippard
Paul Chaat Smith
Jimmie Durham
Tina Majkowshi
Tavia Nyong'o