Author: Marjorie M. Halpin
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 0774844884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jack Shadbolt was inspired in his formative years by his contact with Emily Carr and with her brooding works portraying the remnants of Indian villages against the overwhelming wilderness. He made sketches of Indian artefacts and the Cowichan Reserve in the 1930s, but it was only after World War II that elements of Indian art began to show up in his style. Marjorie Halpin finds in the changes in the way Indian forms occur in Shadbolt's paintings an appropriate expression of the changing attitudes of British Columbians to Native society and the political will the Native people now manifest. The place of Indian motifs in Shadbolt's painting can be broadly correlated with the cultural quickening of Indian society in recent years. They reveal his emotional sympathy with Kwagiutl, Haida, and Tlingit forms and his deep response to the Indians' spiritual and historic presence in the British Columbia environment.
Author: Alan C. Elder
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781551521718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beguiling look at the collaborative nature of art and design in postwar British Columbia.
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Herbert New
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780774803717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on literature by and about Canada's native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both native and non-native writers. Directs the reader to the underlying traditions - largely misunderstood by the non-native community - of myths, rituals and songs.
Author: Lydia Jessup
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 177282299X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recognizing the established intellectual and institutional authority of Aboriginal artists, curators, and academics working in cultural institutions and universities, this volume serves as an important primer on key questions and issues accompanying the changing representational practices of the community cultural center, the public art gallery and the anthropological museum.
Author: Karen Duffek
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 0774844876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →According to eminent French anthropologist Levi-Strauss, Reid "brought Northwest Coast art to the world scene, into dialogue with the whole of mankind." In this artistic biography, Karen Duffek gives an account of Bill Reid's life and work and of his role as artist, innovator, and ambassador of Haida art. After describing the processes by which Reid came to reconstruct the formal rules of a complex artistic tradition, Duffek focuses on his mastery of new techniques, particularly in making jewellery, techniques which others now emulate. In the key chapter "Beyond the Essential Form," she uses Reid's own categories of his work as "copies, adaptations and explorations," to give a candid appraisal of his artistic achievements -- from massive poles to gold boxes, from intricate bracelets to the great bronze Killerwhale statue.
Author: Doreen Jensen
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780774802642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on the button blanket ceremonial robes of the Indians of the Northwest Coast, their history and place in the culture.
Author: Frances M. Slaney
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 0776637142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines Marius Barbeau’s career at Canada’s National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History), in light of his education at Oxford and in Paris (1907–1911). Based on archival research in England, France and Canada, Marius Barbeau’s Vitalist Ethnology presents Barbeau’s anthropological training at Oxford through his meticulous course notes, as well as archival photographs at the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. It also draws upon Barbeau’s professional correspondence at Library and Archives Canada, the BC Archives, and, above all, the National Museum, where he worked for over four decades. The author, Frances M. Slaney, sheds light on the professional life of this founder of Canadian anthropology, exploring his difficult working relationships with Edward Sapir, his collaborations with Franz Boas, and his outstanding fieldwork in rural Quebec and with Indigenous communities on British Columbia’s Northwest Coast. Barbeau penned over 1,000 books and articles, in addition to curating innovative museum exhibitions and art shows. He invited Group of Seven artists into his field sites, convinced that their works could better capture the “vitality” of Quebec’s rural culture than his own abundant photographs. For these—and many other—contributions, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada recognized him as a “person of national historic importance” in 1985.