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Native American

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.


Anthes, Bill. Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 304 pp.; 28 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822338505)

Berlo, Janet Catherine. Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. Ed. Allen Wardwell. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. 128 pp.; 142 color ills.; 1 b/w ills. Paper (0870998579)

Berlo, Janet Catherine, ed. Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of ht e Lakota World. George Braziller, 1999. 208 pp.; 77 color ills.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0807614653)

Blomberg, Nancy J., ed. [Re]inventing the Wheen: Advancing the Dialogue on Contemporary American Indian Art. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2009. 172 pp.; many color ills. Paper (9780914738596 )

Bourque, Bruce J., and Laureen A. LaBar. Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume. Exh. cat. Augusta and Seattle: Maine State Museum in association with University of Washington, 2009. 192 pp.; 104 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780295988702)

Brotherton, Barbara, ed. S‘abadeb, The Gifts : Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists. Exh. cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum and University of Washington Press, 2008. 240 pp.; 200 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780295988634)

Brown, Steven C. Sun Dogs & Eagle Down: The Indian Paintings of Bill Holm. University of Washington Press, 1999. 208 pp.; many color ills.; none b/w ills.; 0 ills. Cloth $35.00 (029597947X)

Carlin, Eithne B. In the Shadow of the Tiger: The Amerindians of Suriname. Amsterdam: KIT Publishing, 2010. Many color ills. Paper £22.50 (9789460220265)

Chapman, Janet, and Karen Barrie. Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 384 pp.; 13 color ills.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780826344243)

Complo McNutt, Jennifer, and Ashley Holland, eds. We Are Here: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2011. Indianapolis, IN: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, 2011. 120 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $26.95 (9780295991795)

Dalrymple, Larry. Indian Basketmakers of California and the Great Basin. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, 1999. 88 pp.; 45 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0890133379)

Dalrymple, Larry. Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999. 156 pp.; 54 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0890133387)

Devon, Marjorie, ed. Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 144 pp.; 49 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780826337696)

Durham, Jimmie. Jimmie Durham: Rejected Stones. Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2009. 232 pp.; many color ills. Cloth £ 45.00 (9782759600847)

Ewers, John C. Plains Indian Art: The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers. Ed. Jane Ewers Robinson. Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photoraphy of the American West, vol. 8. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 41 color ills.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780806130613)

Fineup-Riordan, Anne. Yuungnaqpiallerput: The Way We Genuinely Live; Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with Anchorage Museum Association and Calista Elders Council, 2006. 376 pp.; 320 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780295986692)

Griffin-Pierce, Trudy. Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power: Naiche's Puberty Ceremony Paintings. Contemporary American Indian Studies.. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 208 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $32.95 (0817315446)

Gritton, Joy L. The Institute of American Indian Arts: Modernism and U.S. Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. 199 pp.; 32 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0826321925)

Hall, Michael D., and Pat Glascock. Carvings and Commerce: Modern Totem Poles, 1880–2010. Exh. cat. Saskatoon, Canada: Mendel Art Gallery, 2011. 224 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295991498)

Hill, Greg, ed. Carl Beam: The Poetics of Being. Exh. cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2010. 140 pp.; many color ills. Paper $56.95 (9780888848765)

Horse Capture, Sr., George P. Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Lebanon, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2011. 216 pp.; 200 ills. Paper (9781611680331)

Hutchinson, Elizabeth. The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915. Ed. Nicholas Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2009. 304 pp.; 8 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (9780822343905)

Jonaitis, Aldona, and Aaron Glass. The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.; 192 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780295989624)

Jonaitis, Aldona. The Yuquot Whalers’ Shrine. University of Washington Press, 1998. 234 pp. Cloth (0295978287)

Kennedy, Martha H. The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 186 pp.; 91 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0803215126)

Laufer, Marilyn, ed. Real Western Wear: Beaded Gauntlets from the William P. Healey Collection. Exh. cat. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2007. 136 pp.; 73 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780915977659)

MacDonald, Deanna. Prague: The Essential Guide to Viewing Art in Prague. Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Publishing, 2006. 312 pp.; few color ills. Paper $20.00 (1566566223)

Mauro, Hayes Peter. The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. 184 pp.; 99 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780826349200)

McLennan, Bill, and Karen Duffek. The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations. UBC Press in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. 291 pp.; 193 color ills.; 711 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0295980249)

Meijer zu Schlochtern, Thomas. Paramaribo SPAN. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: KIT Publisher, 2010. Many color ills. Paper £25.00 (9789460220814)

Musick, Pat, Jerry Carr, and Bill Woodiel. Stone Songs on the Trail of Tears: The Journey of an Installation. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, 2005. 104 pp.; 70 color ills. Cloth (1557288003)

Nottage, James H., ed. Into the Fray: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, 2005. Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2005. 128 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $22.50 (0295985771)

Ostrowitz, Judith. Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 240 pp.; 12 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780295988511)

Phillips, Ruth B. Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700–1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. 352 pp.; 38 color ills.; 171 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (0295976489)

Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 330 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521836409)

Portago, Andrea. Classic Hopi and Zuni Kachina Figures. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005. 176 pp.; 31 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth (0890134839)

Rosoff, Nancy B., and Susan Kennedy Zeller, eds. Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 239 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295990774)

Russell, Karen Kramer, ed. Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art. Exh. cat. New Haven and Salem, MA: Yale University Press and Peabody Essex Museum, 2012. 248 pp.; 144 color ills.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300177329)

Ryan, Allan J. The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art. University of British Columbia Press in association with University of Washington Press, 1998. 304 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0295978163)

Szabo, Joyce M., ed. Painters, Patrons, and Identity: Essays in Native American Art to Honor J.J. Brody. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 306 pp.; 17 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0826320252)

Thom, Ian M. Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 176 pp.; 85.00 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780295989198)

Touchette, Charleen, and Suzanne Deats. Ndn Art: Contemporary Native American Art. Albuquerque: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2003. 206 pp.; 168 color ills. Paper $45.00 (0974102326)

Townsend, Richard F., ed. Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest. New Haven and Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2005. 208 pp.; 214 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300111484)

Townsend, Richard F., ed. Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago in association with Yale University Press, 2003. 288 pp.; 320 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300104677)

Turnbaugh, William A., and Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh. Basket Tales of the Grandmothers: American Indian Baskets in Myth and Legend. University of Washington Press, 1999. 224 pp.; 45 color ills.; 250 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0962831417)

Valette, Rebecca M., and Jean-Paul Valette. Weaving the Dance: Navajo Yeibichai Textiles (1910-1950). Albuquerque: Adobe House in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. 72 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0963371029)

Verzuh, Valerie K., ed. A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos. Exh. cat. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2010. 192 pp.; 130 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780890135228)

Vincent, Gilbert T., Sherry Brydon, and Ralph T. Coe, eds. Art of the North American Indians. Cooperstown: University of Washington Press, 550 pp.; 260 color ills.; 510 b/w ills. $85.00 (0295978341)

Werness, Hope B. Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, & Culture in Africa, Oceana, & Native North America. Continuum, 1999. 500 pp. Cloth $50.00 (0826411568)