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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Indian Craze
    sub title: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915
  name:
    name part: Hutchinson, Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Nicholas
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hutchinson, Elizabeth
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      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Nicholas
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      role term: edt
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Nicholas
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      role term: oth
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: US-NC
    publisher: Duke University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (304 p.)
  abstract: 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. Illustrating her argument with images culled from late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century publications, Hutchinson revises the standard history of the mainstream interest in Native American material culture as "art." While many locate the development of this cross-cultural interest in the Southwest after the First World War, Hutchinson reveals that it began earlier and spread across the nation from west to east and from reservation to metropolis. She demonstrates that artists, teachers, and critics associated with the development of American modernism, including Arthur Wesley Dow and Gertrude Käsebier, were inspired by Native art. Native artists were also able to achieve some recognition as modern artists, as Hutchinson shows through her discussion of the Winnebago painter and educator Angel DeCora. By taking a transcultural approach, Hutchinson transforms our understanding of the role of Native Americans in modernist culture.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unpacking the Indian Corner -- 2. The White Man's Indian Art: Teaching Aesthetics at the Indian Schools -- 3. Playing Indian: Native American Art and Modern Aesthetics -- 4. The Indians in Käsebier's Studio -- 5. Angel DeCora's Cultural Politics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
  note: Elizabeth Hutchinson, Nicholas Thomas.
  note: Open Access Unrestricted online access star
  note: CC BY-NC-ND
  note: English
  subject:
    topic: Art / American
  subject:
    topic: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American
  subject:
    topic: History / United States / 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: History
  classification: E98.A7
  classification: 709/.01/1
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    title info:
      title: Objects/Histories
  identifier: 9781478090786
  identifier: 1478090782
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record content source: ScCtBLL
    record creation date: 211214
    record change date: 20230124202251.0
    record identifier: 99371134651006441