Drawing (upon) the Past: Negotiating Identities in Inuit Graphic Arts Production

This article addresses how drawings and prints made by contemporary Inuit artists function in the international art market and in local cultural production. Berlo argues that the drawings made artists such as Napachie Pootoogook are part of the production of contemporary local identities that incorp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berlo, Janet Catherine
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2007
Subjects:
West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Inuit co-op
Canadian artic
Cape Dorset
Zacharias Kunuk
female artists
art market
Napachie Pootoogook
Manasi Akpaliapik
Pudlo Pudlat
Pitseolak Ashoona
Baffin
eskimo*
inuit
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1802/3883
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Summary:This article addresses how drawings and prints made by contemporary Inuit artists function in the international art market and in local cultural production. Berlo argues that the drawings made artists such as Napachie Pootoogook are part of the production of contemporary local identities that incorporate history and tradition without being bound by them to the past.

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