A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943

by Jennifer Mclerran

Book Overview

As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets.

In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816519528
• ISBN13: 9780816519521
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"