Modern by Tradition
American Indian Painting in the Studio Style
Published on 10. November 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-89013-291-3 (ISBN)
Description
Kansas-born educator Dorothy Dunn established the country's first Indian art school, thus ushering in the flat-art style by which Native American painters have been celebrated as the first modernists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Mexico
United States
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 278 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
962 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89013-291-3 (9780890132913)
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Bruce Bernstein is the former executive director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, which sponsors Santa Fe Indian Market. He is the former assistant director for research and collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the former director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Museum of New Mexico). He is the author of Santa Fe Indian Market: A History of Native Arts and the Marketplace (Museum of New Mexico Press).