Indigenous and Iroquoian art as knowledge : in the shadow of the eagle / by Jolene K. Rickard.
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Abstract: | [This dissertation] is articulated from an Iroquoian perspective. Based on a comprehensive review of the significant historiographical literature in the field I mount a critique on the imposition of Western hierarchies and epistemological categories on the conceptualization of Indigenous visual aesthetic expression. This discussion is primarily dealing with art and artists working in the 1980s to the present. I argue that Indigenous art be contextualized within a cultural frame that recognizes the significance of oral tradition, spiritual belief, and the political formation of sovereignty as central. As a photographer and a scholar the predominant emphasis of my analysis is based on the photograph as a site of interconnected "gazes." Gerald Vizenor's notion of "simulated Indians" and Rayna Green's "Pocahontas perplex" form an intellectual platform to argue the issues of misrepresentation. As curator and essayist, the exhibitions Indigenous America: the glass floor, Watchful eyes, and Humorous art facts are discussed. I take on the issues of inclusion, access and cultural persona, by critiquing the work of Native artists Arthur Amiotte, Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, and Victor Masayesva, Jr. Sovereignty is presented as a historic legal space, as well as, a "cultural memory." Based on the formation of the Indian Defense League of America, founded in the 1920s by my Grandfather, Chief Clinton Rickard, I establish the ongoing assertion of sovereignty to be a foundational role in the political consciousness of contemporary Iroquois artists. This argument culminates in the exhibition, In the shadow of the eagle with over two hundred works that, in total, mapped an Iroquoian world view as dynamic and ancient. Iroquois artists, Salli Benedict, Tom Huff, Alex Jacobs, Joe Jacobs, Gail Trembley, and the young people of the Tuscarora Nation redefined Iroquoia as a site for the transformation of knowledge as art."--Page v. |
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| Item Description: | "UMI Number: 9704926"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on manuscript version record. |