Native American art and the New York avant-garde : a history of cultural primitivism By W Jackson Rushing
1995 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0292755473 | PDF | 69 MB
Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of "primitive" imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is the use United States artists made of Native American art, myth, and ritual to craft a specifically American Modernist art. In this groundbreaking study, W. Jackson Rushing comprehensively explores the process by which Native American