Description:
Offering first-time vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced each other and changed over time, and, finally, conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.
Brief description:
Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota Sioux) is Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. She is an award-winning artist working in film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art.
Review Quotes: "Indigenous War Painting of the Plains is the capstone on Arni Brownstone's decades of research on Plains Indian narrative painting. Methodologically innovative, visually stunning, entirely convincing. Wow. What a book!"--Christian F. Feest, author of Native Arts of North America