| Description |
1 online resource (411 pages) |
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Studies in visual culture ; v. 1 |
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Studies in visual culture ; v. 1.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indian art -- Northwest Coast of North America
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Art indien d'Amérique -- Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
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ART -- History -- General.
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Civilization
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Indian art
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Northwest Coast of North America -- Civilization
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Nord-Ouest, Cô̂te (Amérique du Nord) -- Civilisation
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| Subject |
North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meuli, Jonathan
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| ISBN |
9781134434657 |
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1134434650 |
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