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FA 199A: Methods and Approaches in the History of Art

Course guide developed for Professor Jonathan Unglaub by Lisa Zeidenberg, Creative Arts Librarian. Originally created by Darwin Scott.

Selected print books on North American Southwest Native art

New Light on Chaco Canyon by David G. Noble (Editor)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks + E99.P9 N278 1984
From this earth: the ancient art of Pueblo pottery by Stewart Peckham; J. J. Brody (Introduction by)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks + E99.P9 P37 1990
Anasazi and Pueblo Painting by J. J. Brody
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E99.P9 B732 1991
Kachinas in the Pueblo World by Polly Schaafsma (Editor) The broadest presentation to date of the view eminent scholars on the history and contemporary manifestations of the kachina in Pueblo culture.
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E99.P9 K33 1994
Ceramics and ideology: Salado polychrome pottery by Patricia L. Crown
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E99.S547 C76 1994

Annotated bibliographies

Selected print books on Native North American art

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South by Richard F. Townsend (Editor)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks + E98.A6 H47 2004
First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art by Bruce Bernstein (Editor); Gerald McMaster (Editor)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks + E98.A7 F54 2004
Native North American Art by Janet Catherine Berlo; Ruth B. Phillips
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E98.A7 B47 1998

Selected print books on modern Native American artists

Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories by W. Jackson Rushing III (Editor)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks E98.A7 N38 1999
Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison by W. Jackson Rushing; Kristin Makholm; Kay WalkingStick (Foreword by); W. Jackson Rushing
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N6537.M656 A4 2013
Native Moderns: American Indian Painting by Bill Anthes
Call Number: Main Library Stacks ND238.A4 A58 2006

Selected print books on the art of the Plains peoples

Plains Indian Drawings, 1865–1935: Pages from a Visual History by Jane Catherine Berlo
Call Number: Main Library Stacks + E78.G73 P525 1996
Howling Wolf and History Ledger Art by Szabo
Call Number: Main Library Stacks + E78.G73 S93 1994

Online exhibition catalog

Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art
Exhibition organized by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 2009-2010. Search or browse exhibition items using companion website.

Museums featuring Native American art

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis
Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Santa Fe, NM
"The country’s only museum for exhibiting, collecting, and interpreting the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists."

E-books

Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau (JSTOR E-book) by James D. Keyser
Publication Date: 1992-08-01
Plains Indian Rock Art (JSTOR E-Book) by James D. Keyser; Michael A. Klassen
Publication Date: 2001-08-27
Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists by Richard Pearce
Publication Date: 2013-06-13

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Subjects: Art, Architecture and Photography