I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists

by Lawrence Abbott

What is Indian art? There have been many attempts to define it, but the so-called Santa Fe style of the 1930s--placid, two-dimensional depictions of traditional scenes--set the standard by which subsequent art by Native Americans would be judged. Art that radically challenged the stereotype--the work of Joe Herrera, Fritz Scholder, and T. C. Cannon, for example--met with resistance; questions were raised about its authenticity as Indian art. Today's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080321037X
• ISBN13: 9780803210370
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Essential Foundation Reading for Native American Fine Art

This is a great survey of Native American contemporary fine art, with an excellent range of views in the artists' word. The issues raised by the artists are still very much in play today.