Shadow House : Interpretations of Northwest Coast Art.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in visual culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Map; INTRODUCTION; I 'The Carvings on the Houseposts Winked Their Eyes ... '
- Indigenous Northwest Coast Aesthetics; II 'Remember the Sacred Room and its Paintings ... ' Indigenous Northwest Coast Art History; Histories of artistic innovation; Art history and politics; Using art to remember words; Mnemonically-intended art: crests and other such markers of great events; The workings of mnemonically-intended art: some comparative examples.
- Art that was never mnemonically-intended, but that invites all sorts of memories just the sameMnemonic systems, sculpture, architecture, landscape and movement; III 'How Pregnant with Meaning is Every Carving ... '
- Collecting Objects and Ascribing Meanings; The great collection of northwest coast culture; Culture- and city-building in the northeastern USA; 'The desirability of obtaining carvings that have explanations ... '; Scientists collecting the beautiful; Decoration and meaning as commodities; A short history of non-meanings; A raven-rattle that was never collected.
- Salvage ethnography and the collection of 'meanings'Finding meaning everywhere; The sort of meanings that places house; IV 'It is Deep to Where Most of it Has Sunk ... '
- Art on the Coast in the 20th Century; Appendix I
- Sources, texts and literal translations; Sources for chapter I; Sources for chapter II; Diacritics and lineation; Appendix II
- The cliff painting of Legaix; Appendix III
- Horn Spoons; Bibliography; Index.