American Encounters : Art, History, and Cultural Identity
ISBN: 9780130300041 | 0130300047
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 10/11/2007
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For survey courses in American art that span ancient Indian cultures to the present. American Encounters is a long-awaited dynamic new narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid exchanges between "high" art and vernacular expression. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the influences, borrowings, and a... MORE
| From Ancient Times to the Late Colonial Era | p. 1 |
| The Art of Indigenous Americans before 1500 c.e. | p. 3 |
| The Art of the Eastern Woodlands | p. 5 |
| Framing the Discourse: New World Origins | p. 5 |
| Framing the Discourse: Names and Native Americans | p. 7 |
| The Art of Archaic and Woodland Cultures | p. 6 |
| Poverty Point | p. 7 |
| Hopewell Culture | p. 8 |
| Missis... MORE | p. 9 |
| Myths and Legends: Nineteenth-Century Myths of the Moundbuilders | p. 9 |
| Moundville | p. 10 |
| Spiro | p. 11 |
| Cahokia | p. 13 |
| Arctic Alaska | p. 15 |
| Old Bering Sea Culture | p. 15 |
| Ipiutak Stage | p. 16 |
| Ancient Art of the Southwest | p. 17 |
| From Basketmakers to Potters and Architects | p. 17 |
| Anasazi or Ancestral Pueblo | p. 17 |
| Chaco Canyon | p. 18 |
| Mimbres Painted Pottery | p. 19 |
| Art and Culture Change in the Proto-historic Period: Hopi, Zuni, and Acoma | p. 20 |
| Conclusion | p. 21 |
| The Old World and the New: First Phases of Encounter, 1492 date? | p. 23 |
| European Images of the New World: The First Century | p. 23 |
| The Earliest Images | p. 24 |
| Columbus Landing in the Indies | p. 24 |
| Paradise and Hell | p. 24 |
| The "Noble Savage" | p. 24 |
| A Beckoning Princess | p. 25 |
| Fast Forward: The Long History of the Feathered Headdress | p. 25 |
| The Empirical Eye of Commerce | p. 26 |
| John White | p. 26 |
| De Bry's Great Voyages | p. 28 |
| New World Maps | p. 29 |
| Ceremonies of Possession | p. 30 |
| The Spanish Requirimiento | p. 30 |
| The French and the Timucua | p. 31 |
| The English: Taking Possession of the Land | p. 32 |
| Indigenous Eastern North America: Forging a Middle Ground | p. 32 |
| New Materials and New Markets | p. 33 |
| "Powhatan's Mantle" | p. 33 |
| Horse Effigy Comb | p. 34 |
| War Club | p. 35 |
| Pipe Tomahawk | p. 35 |
| A Pair of Ceremonial Pouches | p. 36 |
| A Painted Hide | p. 37 |
| Wampum: A Contract in Shells | p. 38 |
| Fast Forward: The Repatriation of Wampum | p. 39 |
| "Fond of Finery": Portraiture and Self-Display | p. 39 |
| Hendrick and John: Eighteenth-century Gentlemen at the Boundaries of Cultures | |
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