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A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
Jennifer McLerran
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Description for A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
Paperback. Available for the first time in paperback! Num Pages: 299 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets.
In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programs—and how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. She describes federal policies of the 1930s and early 1940s that sought to ... Read more
As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets.
In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programs—and how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. She describes federal policies of the 1930s and early 1940s that sought to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816519521
SKU
V9780816519521
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About Jennifer McLerran
Jennifer McLerran is a curator at the Museum of Northern Arizona and an assistant professor of art history at Northern Arizona University. She is the editor of Weaving Is Life: Navajo Weavings from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection.
Reviews for A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
“Wilmer’s book gives performance students and scholars a much-needed resource: a text that examines an array of performance traditions from an array of perspectives, initiating a dialogue across the disciplines of theater, music, dance, and visual art on the presentations and representations of and by indigenous peoples.” —Ann Haugo, co-editor of Querying Difference in Theatre History|""A fascinating look at how ... Read more