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Water, wind, breath : Southwest Native art in the Barnes Foundation /

This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative...

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Corporate Authors: Barnes Foundation
Group Author: Williams, Lucy Fowler; Chavarria, Antonio R.; Naataanii, TahNibaa, 1967-; Williams, Ken, Jr. 1983-; Bauver, Robert; Webster, Laurie D., 1952-
Published: The Barnes Foundation ;
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, PA :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Barnes Foundation > Catalogs.
Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Exhibitions.
Indian arts > Southwest, New > Exhibitions.
Indian art > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Indian art > Collectors and collecting > United States.
Rugs > Collectors and collecting > Catalogs.
Navajo silverwork.
Pueblo pottery.
Navajo blankets.
Art > Catalogs.
Art.
Indian art.
Indian art > Collectors and collecting.
Indian arts.
Indians of North America.
Rugs > Collectors and collecting.
New Southwest.
United States.
Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Summary: This richly illustrated book makes the Barnes Foundation's exceptional collection of Native American art from the Southwest available to the public for the first time. Collector and educator Albert C. Barnes traveled to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 and 1931 and, deeply impressed by the generative art practices he saw there, formed a collection of Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry. "Water, Wind, Breath" illuminates the materials, forms, and designs of the objects as they relate to Pueblo and Navajo histories and ideas. The book blends postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives, introducing readers to living artistic traditions filled with purpose, intention, and a deeply embedded spirituality that connects places, practices, and Native identities. Works by contemporary Native American artists are juxtaposed with historic pieces, illuminating the connections between heritage traditions and modern practices.
Item Description: Catalog from an exhibition, organized by and held at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 20-May 15, 2022--Colophon.
Carrier Form: viii, 211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits ; 30 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201) and index.
ISBN: 9780300264128
0300264127
Index Number: E78
CLC: K712.8
J171.209.9
Call Number: J171.209.9/W324
Contents: In the shadows of paradise /
Chasing the dawn --
Pueblo pottery: meditations on clay mother's gift /
Navajo textiles: weaving a space of great peace /
A Navajo "slave" blanket /
Dating the Southwest Native textiles in the Barnes Foundation /
Southwest Native jewelry /
Chief Ignacio of the Weeminuche Band /
Silver and Southwest Native art /
Appendix: summary of Southwest Native textile dye analyses /

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