Carvings and Commerce celebrates the model totem pole in all its myriad forms. Native American carvers supplying curios for the Pacific Northwest souvenir trade in the late 1800s created the first model totem poles. Over time, totem poles came to be perceived as generalized icons of "Indian life" and Native groups all across North America began making model totems for the ever-expanding tourism industry that attended the popularization of automobile travel. By the middle of the 20th century, totems were being produced by a variety of non-Native groups, including Boy Scouts and hobby crafters. Native artists in the 21st century, in both the United States and Canada, have revitalized the model totem pole tradition, sharing it with a growing fine-art audience. Carvings and Commerce traces the history of model totem poles from the end of the 19th century to the present time. Internationally recognized scholars and artists examine the issues of politics, economics, cultural identity, tradition, and aesthetics that have shaped the evolution of the model totem pole for over a hundred and thirty years. 
Michael D. Hall and Pat Glascock are artists and collectors. Other contributors include Robert Davidson, Kate Duncan, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis, and Christopher W. Smith.

Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles, 1880-2010

Arts & Photography

Hall, Michael D.

Glascock, Pat

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

A comprehensive program of textbook, lab manual and software, this Microsoft Official Academic Course provides everything students need to build the knowledge and skills necessary to configure, manage, and troubleshoot a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure and to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Professional examination 70-291: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment . A complete set of instructor resources supports the book.

Implementing, Managing, And Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure 70-291

Computers & Technology

Smith, Tony

Bott, Greg

Certification

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Examining the work of the American watercolourist, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), this study traces his life and artistic output through scores of paintings, organized thematically rather than chronologically. It also looks at comparative works by his peers and mentors, and by present-day artists whose visions parallel his. Burchfield's achievements are considered in the context of the cultural and artistic environment in which he worked, and in a broad international context of landscape painting, with particular reference to turn-of-the-century Scandinavian landscapes.

The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest

Maciejunes, Nannette V.

Burchfield, Charles Ephraim

Burchfield-Penney Art Center

National Museum of Art (U. S.)

Columbus Museum of Art.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Stereoscopic Perspective: Reflections on American Fine and Folk Art (Contemporary American Art Critics)

Umi Research Pr

Captain Edward James Ruppelt served as project chief of Air Force investigations into UFO phenomena from November 1951 to September 1953. Ruppelt was an inspiration for those who wanted the issue addressed seriously. In honor of his memory, Hall and Connors have written this book. In doing so they have extensively used Ed Ruppelt’s private papers and unedited manuscript held in the capable care of Professor Michael Swords of Western Michigan University and the J. Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies. The authors also based the book on personal interviews with those who knew and served with Ed Ruppelt. Its pages not only serve as a biography of Ed Ruppelt, but a tribute to his devotion to the United States Air Force and his family.

Captain Edward J Ruppelt Summer of the Saucers 1952

Religion & Spirituality

Connors, Wendy

Occult & Paranormal

Rose Pr

Exploding accepted definitions or the "outsider" within modern Western art, The Artist Outsider presents both American and European views on outsider art, Art Brut, folk art, primitive art, women's art, ethnic art, avant-garde art, and other ardently debated art forms.Essays by nineteen art historians, critics, folklorists, psychiatrists, cultural historians, artists, feminist scholars, anthropologists, and museum curators address the significance of ideas about the art of the "other" and the relation of these ideas to modern understandings of culture, artistic personality, and the ways that creativity helps to map our world. More than seventy illustrations, twelve in full color, illuminate these discussions.The contributors discuss variously the work of artist outsiders as fundamental human expression, political turf, clinical data, a marker of community, a functional artifact, and a sign of personal identity. The more theoretical essays consider the problem of artistic classification; political and philosophical issues involved in the idea of the artist outsider; and critical responses to new forms of art. Other essays examine the works of French environmental artist Pierre Avezard, Mexican American schizophrenic artist Martin Ramirez, Lithuanian Canadian painter Jahan Maka, Swiss German Surrealist sculptor Meret Oppenheim, and African American woodcarver Elijah Pierce.With its interdisciplinary vision, The Artist Outsider offers new ideas about how studies of art resonate with the examination of culture. Often in stark disagreement with one another, these essays provoke a reassessment of widely accepted ideas about the relationships among art, artistry, marginality, and culture.

ARTIST OUTSIDER

Smithsonian

Focuses on the life and career of Emerson Burkhart, containing new scholarship on American Scene painting.

Emerson Burkhart: An Ohio Painter's Song of Himself

Individual Artists

Scala Books

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