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A study of Native American art and artists that represent a crucial and formative, though rarely recognized, aspect of American modernism.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxix
1. Art and Modern Indian Policy 1
2. The Culture Brokers: The Pueblo Paintings of José Lente and Jimmy Brynes 30
3. "Our Inter-American Consciousness": Barnett Newman and the Primitive Universal 59
4. The Importance of Place: The Ojibwe Modernism of Patrick DesJarlait and George Morrison 89
5. Becoming Indian: The Self-Invention of Yeffe Kimball 117
6. "A fine painting . . . but not Indian": Oscar Howe, Dick West, and Native American Modernism 142
Postscript: Making Modern Native American Artists 171
Notes 183
Bibliography 217
Index 227

About the Author

Bill Anthes is Assistant Professor of Art History at Pitzer College.

Reviews

"Fluid, clear, and engaging, Native Moderns is a superb and innovative contribution to Native American art history and modern art's varied histories." Janet Berlo, co-author of Native North American Art "Native Moderns is an outstanding intervention into our understanding of both Native art in the twentieth century and the received history of modernism."--W. Jackson Rushing, author of Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde