Bill Reid and Beyond
Expanding on Modern Native Art
Published on 1. March 2004
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-295-98376-9 (ISBN)
Description
Bill Reid's work has long been acknowledged for its astute and eloquent analysis of Haida tradition, and for the paradox of making modern art from the old Haida stories. It helped to make the so-called renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art visible to all. Bill Reid and Beyond pays Reid the compliment of expanding on his own clear-eyed self-scrutiny as he came to stand for Native art and artists, more perhaps than he would have wished.
The book's nineteen contributors write from many perspectives, breaking down boundaries between art history and anthropology, between academic and artist, between colleague and politician.
Alert to the political, economic, and social events of Bill Reid's lifetime, which have radically changed the way in which Native art is produced and received, this book participates in the important ongoing debates about Native art, demonstrating vividly that the exchange of ideas can, like works of art, change people's minds.
The book's nineteen contributors write from many perspectives, breaking down boundaries between art history and anthropology, between academic and artist, between colleague and politician.
Alert to the political, economic, and social events of Bill Reid's lifetime, which have radically changed the way in which Native art is produced and received, this book participates in the important ongoing debates about Native art, demonstrating vividly that the exchange of ideas can, like works of art, change people's minds.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-98376-9 (9780295983769)
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Persons
Karen Duffek is curator of art at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver and author of Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form and The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations. Charlotte Townsend-Gault is associate professor of art history at the University of British Columbia. She edited Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada. The other contributors include Doug Cranmer, Marcia Crosby, Leslie Dawn, Aaron Glass, Guujaaw, Gwaganad (Diane Brown), Alan L. Hoover, Aldona Jonaitis, Ki-ke-in (Ron Hamilton), Bill McLennan, Marianne Nicolson, George Rammell, Miles Richardson, Doris Shadbolt, David Summers, Loretta Todd, and Scott Watson.
Content
List of illustrations
Foreword by Nika Collison
Preface by Ruth B. Phillips
Introduction: Image and Imagination by Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Karen Duffek
Part I: Expanding the Understanding of Haida Art
On Its Own Terms by Miles Richardson
The Will to Be Haida by Doris Shadbolt
A Matter of Choice by Bill McLennan
Goldsmith/Culturesmith by George Rammell
Part II: Locating Community
Man, Myth or Magic? by Guujaaw
A Non-Haida Upbringing: Conflicts and Resolutions by Gwaganad (Diane Brown)
On Shifting Ground: Bill Reid at the Museum of Anthropology by Karen Duffek
Bill Reid: Master of Patronage by Alan L. Hoover
Haidas, Human Beings and Other Myths by Marcia Crosby
Part III: Revisiting the Revival
What is a Renaissance? by David Summers
Reconsidering the Northwest Coast Renaissance by Aldona Jonaitis
"Other-Side" Man by Doug Cranmer
Memories of Bill Reid: A Most Unlikely "Indian" by Ki-ke-in (Ron Hamilton)
Was Bill Reid the Fixer of a Broken Culture or a Culture Broker? by Aaron Glass
Part IV: Reconciling Aboriginality and Modernity
Two Bears by Scott Watson
Struggles with Aboriginality/Modernity by Charlotte Townsend-Gault
A Bringer of Change: "Through Inadvertence and Accident" by Marianne Nicolson
Re: Reading Reid and the "Revival" by Leslie Dawn
Beyond by Loretta Todd
Bibliography
Biographical Notes on the Contributors
Foreword by Nika Collison
Preface by Ruth B. Phillips
Introduction: Image and Imagination by Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Karen Duffek
Part I: Expanding the Understanding of Haida Art
On Its Own Terms by Miles Richardson
The Will to Be Haida by Doris Shadbolt
A Matter of Choice by Bill McLennan
Goldsmith/Culturesmith by George Rammell
Part II: Locating Community
Man, Myth or Magic? by Guujaaw
A Non-Haida Upbringing: Conflicts and Resolutions by Gwaganad (Diane Brown)
On Shifting Ground: Bill Reid at the Museum of Anthropology by Karen Duffek
Bill Reid: Master of Patronage by Alan L. Hoover
Haidas, Human Beings and Other Myths by Marcia Crosby
Part III: Revisiting the Revival
What is a Renaissance? by David Summers
Reconsidering the Northwest Coast Renaissance by Aldona Jonaitis
"Other-Side" Man by Doug Cranmer
Memories of Bill Reid: A Most Unlikely "Indian" by Ki-ke-in (Ron Hamilton)
Was Bill Reid the Fixer of a Broken Culture or a Culture Broker? by Aaron Glass
Part IV: Reconciling Aboriginality and Modernity
Two Bears by Scott Watson
Struggles with Aboriginality/Modernity by Charlotte Townsend-Gault
A Bringer of Change: "Through Inadvertence and Accident" by Marianne Nicolson
Re: Reading Reid and the "Revival" by Leslie Dawn
Beyond by Loretta Todd
Bibliography
Biographical Notes on the Contributors