Aesthetics Again? The Pleasures and the Dangers

Abstract I begin with a portrait of beauty by Tsimshian artist Robert Jackson (figure r), and with two recent shows of Native American (and Canadian) art. One, Native Visions: Northwest Coast Art, Eighteenth Century to the Present, was organized by the Seattle Art Museum; it traveled to the New York...

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Main Author: Lauter, Paul
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 2002
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195146325.003.0010
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Summary:Abstract I begin with a portrait of beauty by Tsimshian artist Robert Jackson (figure r), and with two recent shows of Native American (and Canadian) art. One, Native Visions: Northwest Coast Art, Eighteenth Century to the Present, was organized by the Seattle Art Museum; it traveled to the New York State Historical Association museum in Cooperstown, New York, the Anchorage (Alaska) Museum of History and Art, and the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.