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The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915

The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915

Hutchinson, Elizabeth

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Series: Objects/Histories

Art HistoryNative American HistoryIndigenous Art of the Americas

ISBN10: 0822344084
ISBN13: 9780822344087
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 23 2009
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, Indian stores, dealers, and the U.S. government's Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art, which they displayed in domestic nooks called Indian corners. Elizabeth Hutchinson identifies this collecting as part of a larger Indian craze and links it to other activities such as the inclusion of Native American artifacts in art exhibitions sponsored by museums, arts and crafts societies, and World's Fairs, and the use of indigenous handicrafts as models for non-Native artists exploring formal abstraction and emerging notions of artistic subjectivity. She argues that the Indian craze convinced policymakers that art was an aspect of traditional Native culture worth preserving, an attitude that continues to influence popular attitudes and federal legislation.

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