Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media, and Identity

by Steven M. Leuthold

Book Overview

What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics of the Native culture?

These are some of the questions that underlie this rich study of Native American aesthetics, art, media, and identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292747039
• ISBN13: 9780292747036
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"