Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art

by Judith Ostrowitz

What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why, when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past, Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas, reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295978147
• ISBN13: 9780295978147
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 10.4"