Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art

by Kate Morris

Book Overview

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous art

A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers--and settlers--into the territories of the old and new worlds. In the twentieth century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295745363
• ISBN13: 9780295745367
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 10.3"