Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art

Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art
ISBN-10
0295745363
ISBN-13
9780295745367
Series
Shifting Grounds
Category
Art
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2019
Author
Kate Morris

Description

In Shifting Grounds, art historian Kate Morris argues that Indigenous artists are expanding and reconceptualizing forms of landscape art, expressing Indigenous attitudes toward land and belonging even as they draw upon mainstream art practices. The resulting works are rarely if ever primarily visual representations, but instead evoke all five senses: from the overt sensuality of Kay WalkingStick's tactile paintings to the eerie soundscapes of Alan Michelson's videos and Postcommodity's installations, this landscape art resonates with a fully embodied subjectivity. In the works of these and other artists, Shifting Grounds explores themes of presence and absence, connection and dislocation, memory and commemoration, and power and resistance, illuminating the artists' sustained engagement not only with land and landscape but also with the history of representation itself.

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