Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale
In Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and most-recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo's experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from ......
Generations of Indigenous artists have sought to make a place for Native art in North American culture and society as well as the broader art world. Written at the intersection of history and art history, Painting Native America tells the social history of Indigenous artists and their experiences as they negotiate such questions as how to use art ......
Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama examines artistic and political developments from 1968 to the present, exploring how Native American artists leveraged Panama's populist military reforms from 1968 to 1989 and the neoliberal transition to assert their presence in urban spaces. This book breaks new ground as it examines Indigenous ......
Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama examines artistic and political developments from 1968 to the present, exploring how Native American artists leveraged Panama's populist military reforms from 1968 to 1989 and the neoliberal transition to assert their presence in urban spaces. This book breaks new ground as it examines Indigenous ......
The first English-language analysis of Amazigh film Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film examines the emergence and history of Amazigh visual media and actively contributes to decolonizing the study of Amazigh artistic expression. An exploration of film from across the Amazigh homelands produced by and about Imazighen ......
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art-narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, ......
Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art
An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state's capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates ......
Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art
An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state's capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates ......