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Preoccupied : Indigenizing the Museum by Leila Grothe (2024, Hardcover)

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Preoccupied : Indigenizing the Museum,in which Native artists' voices and histories are centered. Perfect gifting copy. ahtone, heather, et al. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2024. English, New in Shrink-wrap, HC, 4to, 12" x 10", 160 pp.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherT.H.E. Baltimore Museum of Art

ISBN-100912298022

ISBN-139780912298023

eBay Product ID (ePID)27063188505

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

Publication NamePreoccupied : Indigenizing the Museum

LanguageEnglish

SubjectInternet / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Museum Studies, General, Native American

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

AuthorLeila Grothe

Subject AreaArt, Computers

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight44.1 Oz

Item Length12.3 in

Item Width10.2 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum succeeds in its aims to provide access to Native American art, but, more importantly, offers nuanced pictures of the histories, values, and politics guiding the individuals creating that art. Readers can see the artists as real, present-day human beings engaged in a long history of exclusion and violence, but also community, care, and love., [T]he ingenuity of Preoccupied rests not only in its rejection of traditional approaches to museum narratives and constructions but also in its attempts to create new methods for thinking about how to curate Indigenous art, the practice of choosing such art, and how to renarrate the museum., "There are many reasons to celebrate this catalog, but Dare Turner's story of her great-uncle Harry "Timm" Williams alone is worth a read . . . How rare it is to find such honest, complicated writing about art, and in this essay, like much of the book, you feel the winds of new energy that will continue to lift Native and Indigenous art to the fore of conversations around contemporary art, particularly in North America."

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

SynopsisInterrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums Published on the occasion of the "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum" initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples' pivotal role in North American history. The written and visual contributions address and refute the oppressive and pervasive hierarchies of colonialism upon which museums are based. The book features essays by heather ahtone (Chickasaw / Choctaw), Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche), and John Lukavic; newly commissioned poetry by Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe); a comic conceived, written, and illustrated by Weyodi Old Bear (Comanche), Dale Deforest (Diné), and Lee Francis IV (Pueblo of Laguna); and transcripts of roundtable discussions with contemporary Native artists. Fifty plates spanning a range of media from monographic and thematic exhibitions showcase both historically significant works from the BMA's collection and the works of living artists, many of whom offer their perspectives in the catalog, including Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Dana Claxton (Lakota First Nations-Wood Mountain), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit and Unangax), Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak), Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota / Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold), Alan Michelson (Mohawk / Six Nations of the Grand River), Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French), Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Kevin Pourier (Oglala Sioux), Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo), Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Indian), and Dyani White Hawk (Sicáou Lakota). The work offers an important contribution to current global conversations around the decolonization of museums.