The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art,

Description: The Indian Craze by Elizabeth Hutchinson An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century Indian Craze, a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the early twentieth century, Native American baskets, blankets, and bowls could be purchased from department stores, "Indian stores," dealers, and the U.S. governments Indian schools. Men and women across the United States indulged in a widespread passion for collecting Native American art, which they displayed in domestic nooks called "Indian corners." Elizabeth Hutchinson identifies this collecting as part of a larger "Indian craze" and links it to other activities such as the inclusion of Native American artifacts in art exhibitions sponsored by museums, arts and crafts societies, and Worlds Fairs, and the use of indigenous handicrafts as models for non-Native artists exploring formal abstraction and emerging notions of artistic subjectivity. She argues that the Indian craze convinced policymakers that art was an aspect of "traditional" Native culture worth preserving, an attitude that continues to influence popular attitudes and federal legislation.Illustrating her argument with images culled from late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century publications, Hutchinson revises the standard history of the mainstream interest in Native American material culture as "art." While many locate the development of this cross-cultural interest in the Southwest after the First World War, Hutchinson reveals that it began earlier and spread across the nation from west to east and from reservation to metropolis. She demonstrates that artists, teachers, and critics associated with the development of American modernism, including Arthur Wesley Dow and Gertrude Käsebier, were inspired by Native art. Native artists were also able to achieve some recognition as modern artists, as Hutchinson shows through her discussion of the Winnebago painter and educator Angel DeCora. By taking a transcultural approach, Hutchinson transforms our understanding of the role of Native Americans in modernist culture. Notes An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century "Indian Craze," a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism Back Cover "The Indian Crazeis not only a delight to read; it is a major contribution to American visual cultural studies. Wearing her erudition lightly, Elizabeth Hutchinson participates in and adds appreciably to the transcultural critiques that so many of us are interested in now."-Janet C. Berlo, co-author ofNative North American Art Author Biography Elizabeth Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Table of Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Unpacking the Indian Corner 11 2. The White Mans Indian Art: Teaching Aesthetics at the Indian Schools 51 3. Playing Indian: Native American Art and Modern Aesthetics 91 4. The Indians in Käsebiers Studio 131 5. Angel DeCoras Cultural Politics 171 Epilogue 221 Notes 235 Selected Bibliography 263 Index 267 Review "The Indian Craze is not only a delight to read; it is a major contribution to American visual cultural studies. Wearing her erudition lightly, Elizabeth Hutchinson participates in and adds appreciably to the transcultural critiques that so many of us are interested in now." Janet Berlo, co-author of Native North American Art "The Indian Craze is a lucid and compelling account of the entangled histories of Native and European-American aesthetic and intersubjective exchange in the formative years of American modernism. Told with deep historical understanding, it restores subjecthood and agency to Native artists too often deprived of both by the persistence of primitivizing attitudes. Such studies as Elizabeth Hutchinsons offer a very different, insistently hybrid history of modernism, sensitive to the ethical ambiguities that reside in virtually every instance of uneven encounter between colonizer and colonized. This is a long-awaited contribution to how we understand the complex cultural negotiations attendant on the growing aesthetic value accorded to Native arts around the turn-of-the-century." Angela Miller, lead author of American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity Promotional An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century "Indian Craze," a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism Review Quote "While the experience of modernism in less urban western places was no doubt different, modernism still must have been present. Without the insights of Hutchinsons book, however, historians could not even begin to identify modernism in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century. In short, The Indian Craze is a potentially paradigm-shifting book, one that will force new discussions of who participates in the modern world and how." - Flannery Burke, Journal of American History Promotional "Headline" An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century "Indian Craze," a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism Details ISBN0822344084 Author Elizabeth Hutchinson Short Title INDIAN CRAZE Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822344084 ISBN-13 9780822344087 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2009-03-23 AU Release Date 2009-03-23 NZ Release Date 2009-03-23 US Release Date 2009-03-23 Pages 304 Series Objects/Histories Publication Date 2009-03-23 Subtitle Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890–1915 DEWEY 709.7309034 Illustrations 80 b&w illustrations, 8 color plates Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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