Promotions - Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles 2019 - Humanities — Art & Architecture — Fine Arts

This exhibition catalogue will be the definitive treatment of Native American art made by women. Curated by Yohe and Greeves, with input from an advisory board of 20 distinguished female Native artists, the book, like the exhibition, has an agenda: it draws attention to the fact that, as Yohe writes in the introduction, "Native women's contributions to the art world have largely gone unrecognized by outsiders, despite the fact that women are responsible for most of the Native artwork in collections." One of the book's strengths is that it shows how contemporary art made by painters, sculptors, and conceptual artists is informed by the art of the past. Concurrently, it shows that traditional forms of creativity--such as pottery, quillwork, beadwork, embroidery, weaving, featherwork, and carving--continue to flourish in the 21st century. The book features footnoted essays by distinguished scholars, curators, and artists and is well indexed. With its large color illustrations, the volume is a pleasure to browse.Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and practitioners; general readers.