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Native American art and the New York avant-garde : a history of cultural primitivism

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Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of "primitive" imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is the use United States artists made of Native American art, myth, and ritual to craft a specifically American Modernist art. In this groundbreaking study, W. Jackson Rushing comprehensively explores the process by which Native American

Author(s): W Jackson Rushing
Series: American studies series
Edition: 1
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Year: 1995

Language: English
Pages: 250

1. The Idea of The Indian/Collecting Native America --
2. Avant-Garde Patronage and Criticism of Native American Art at the Santa Fe and Taos Colonies, 1915-1930 --
3. Pictorial Responses to Native America: Primitivist Painting, 1910-1940 --
4. Native American Art in New York, 1931-1941 --
5. Primitivism, 1940-1950: Theory, Criticism, Painting --
6. Jackson Pollock and Native American Art.