Edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Guilherme Giufrida. Text by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Adriano Pedrosa, Bruce Johnson-McLean, Edson Kayapó, Irene Snarby, Kassia Borges Karajá, Nigel Borell, Renata Tupinambá, Sandra Gamarra, Susanne Hætta.
Centuries of art celebrating a global panorama of Indigenous cultures
Continuing the work of the acclaimed Afro-Atlantic Histories, this publication from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) compiles the collective curatorship and research carried out by artists and scholars from various territories and Indigenous groups in Australia, North America, South America and Scandinavia. For the traveling exhibition, MASP, in collaboration with Kode Bergen Art Museum, invited guest curators from Indigenous nations including Inuit, Maori and Sámi. With over 150 artists included, the featured artworks range from the historical to the contemporary—from 17th-century colonial religious paintings to modern film and video installations—in order to trace the impact of European colonization on Indigenous visual culture. Despite its scope, the aim of Indigenous Histories is not to fully represent the vast and complex histories of each region, but rather to provide a cross section, fragment or sample of these histories in a concise but relevant selection in order to create juxtapositions of these groups on a global scale. Incorporating traditional patterns, this beautifully designed book is divided into eight thematic sections: seven regional and one covering contemporary Indigenous activism. It features over 300 illustrations with narratives contextualized by the guest curators as well as museum directors from institutions around the world. Artists include: Abraham González Pacheco, Antonio Paucar, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Cristóbal Lozano, Iver Jåks, Frida Kahlo, Joar Nango, Katarina Spik Skum, Lena Stenberg, María Izquierdo, Maria Karlsen, Minerva Cuevas, Outi Pieski, Raisa Porsanger, Rufino Tamayo, Saturnino Herrán, Venuca Evanán.
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Spanning four centuries of art and scholarship thoughtfully interwoven by guest curators from various territories and Indigenous groups in Australia, North America, South America and Scandinavia, Indigenous Histories is a staff favorite not only because of its enlightening content but also its stellar design—which includes alternating papers, black edges, a lovely ribbon and sharp interpretations of traditional patterns throughout. Nuestros dioses antiguos (Our Ancient Gods, 1916)—by Mexican painter Saturnino Herrán—is from Abraham Cruzvillegas chapter on the Zapatistas and “The Construction of the ‘Self’” in Mexican Indigenous art. He writes of a collective self that is “many at once, ubiquitous, unstable, standing on belonging and will, subjective and arbitrary, opposed to any paradigm, to race and class statutory determinisms, that includes all possible worlds, is essential for a shift in the comprehension and construction of community, art, nature, and finally the universe, in parallel to the hegemonic Western world.” On the other hand, he writes, one single body—like his own—“can also stand for a plethora of diversity and contradictory simultaneous identities and values, including gender, genealogies, and cultures, as an act of resistance, against any kind of essentialism, nationalism or indigenism.” He concludes with the Zapatista phrase: “Para todos, todo. Para nosostros, nada (For everyone, everything. For us, nothing.)” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 340 pgs / 268 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $79 GBP £45.00 ISBN: 9786557770399 PUBLISHER: Museu de Arte de São Paulo/KMEC Books AVAILABLE: 3/5/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD Except Brazil
Published by Museu de Arte de São Paulo/KMEC Books. Edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Guilherme Giufrida. Text by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Adriano Pedrosa, Bruce Johnson-McLean, Edson Kayapó, Irene Snarby, Kassia Borges Karajá, Nigel Borell, Renata Tupinambá, Sandra Gamarra, Susanne Hætta.
Centuries of art celebrating a global panorama of Indigenous cultures
Continuing the work of the acclaimed Afro-Atlantic Histories, this publication from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) compiles the collective curatorship and research carried out by artists and scholars from various territories and Indigenous groups in Australia, North America, South America and Scandinavia. For the traveling exhibition, MASP, in collaboration with Kode Bergen Art Museum, invited guest curators from Indigenous nations including Inuit, Maori and Sámi. With over 150 artists included, the featured artworks range from the historical to the contemporary—from 17th-century colonial religious paintings to modern film and video installations—in order to trace the impact of European colonization on Indigenous visual culture. Despite its scope, the aim of Indigenous Histories is not to fully represent the vast and complex histories of each region, but rather to provide a cross section, fragment or sample of these histories in a concise but relevant selection in order to create juxtapositions of these groups on a global scale. Incorporating traditional patterns, this beautifully designed book is divided into eight thematic sections: seven regional and one covering contemporary Indigenous activism. It features over 300 illustrations with narratives contextualized by the guest curators as well as museum directors from institutions around the world.
Artists include: Abraham González Pacheco, Antonio Paucar, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Cristóbal Lozano, Iver Jåks, Frida Kahlo, Joar Nango, Katarina Spik Skum, Lena Stenberg, María Izquierdo, Maria Karlsen, Minerva Cuevas, Outi Pieski, Raisa Porsanger, Rufino Tamayo, Saturnino Herrán, Venuca Evanán.
