Native American Collectibles

American Art set the standard for American art survey courses for the last decade by providing a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts...

This exciting new investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions...

From its origins in early 18th century slave communities to the end of the 20th century, African-American art has made a vital contribution to the art of the United States. This book provides a major reassessment of the subject, setting the art in the context of the African-American experience...

This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of American visual arts from the colonial period to 1945. The authors invite deeper thinking about art and culture as they take up diverse subjects--colonial portraits, nineteenth-century sculptures of women, photographic images of New York--and discuss the works of major artists including Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Georgia O`Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock.

A splendidly illustrated introduction to the rich history of Native American art, distinguished by its broad coverage and nuanced discussion. This timely new book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America, from those of ancient cultures such as Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi to the work of modern artists like Earnest Spybuck, Fred Kabotie, Dick West, T...

Drawing on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, this book explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture within the United States from the European voyages of discovery and colonial conquest to the present dawn of a new millennium...

"Determinedly and liberatingly inclusive...satisfying and beautifully produced."—Publishers Weekly This enlarged vision of American art draws together the many strands of North America's history and visual culture...