Shapeshifting : transformations in Native American art / Karen Kramer Russell ; with janet Catherine Berlo...[et al.] ; and contributions by Kathleen Ash-Milby ...[et al.].

Contributor Kramer, Karen, 1971-

Imprint:Salem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum, ; New Haven, CT : Yale University Press c2012.

Description244 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.

Note:Catalog of an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA, January 14-April 29, 2012.

Note:Raising the bar / Karen Kramer Russell -- Expected evolution: the changing continuum / Bruce Bernstein -- Time-honored expression: the knowing of native objects / Joe D. Horse Capture -- A shore without a horizon: locating by looking anew / Jessica L. Horton -- Voicing individuality, creativity, repetition, and change / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Famous long ago / Paul Chaat Smith.

Note:Public perseption of native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulagated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture considered part of the past rather than widely present. This work challenges these assumptions by focusing on the objects as art rather cultural or anthropological artifacts and on the multivalent creativity of Native American artists. The approach highlights the inventive contemporaaneity that existed in all periods and continues today. More than 75 works in a wide range of media and scale are organized into four thematic groups: changing, expanding the imagination; knowing, expressing worldview; locating, exploring identity and place; and voicing, engaging the individual. The result is a paradigm shift in understanding Native American art.

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