Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form

by Karen Duffek

Book Overview

According to eminent French anthropologist Levi-Strauss, Reid "brought Northwest Coast art to the world scene, into dialogue with the whole of mankind." In this artistic biography, Karen Duffek gives an account of Bill Reid's life and work and of his role as artist, innovator, and ambassador of Haida art. After describing the processes by which Reid came to reconstruct the formal rules of a complex artistic tradition, Duffek focuses on his mastery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774802634
• ISBN13: 9780774802635
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"