Title
- Collecting Of American Indian Art
Attribution
Ralph T. Coe ; foreword by Eugene Victor Thaw ; with contributions by J.C.H. King, Judith OstrowitzPublication Details
BookMetropolitan Museum of Art2003Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) E98.A7 C536 2003 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Coe has collected American Indian art for half a century, forming a renowned collection that represents all regions and periods of American Indian art. Featured are exquisite examples of prehistoric stone objects, button blankets, crest objects, masks, canoe and tipi models, dolls and figurines, woven basketry, tobacco paraphernalia, and a selection of contemporary works, all of which bring to life the vivid cultures of the American Indian throughout the centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Coe, Ralph T. — Art collections — Exhibitions
- Coe, Ralph T. — Ethnological collections — Exhibitions
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) — Exhibitions
- Indian art — Collectors and collecting — North America — Exhibitions
- Indians of North America — Material culture — Exhibitions
- Indians of North America — Antiquities — Collectors and collecting — Exhibitions
Notes
- Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 9-Dec. 14, 2003
Contents
- Director’s Foreword / Philippe de Montebello
- Foreword / Eugene Victor Thaw
- The Re-Education of an Art Collector : From Aesthetics to Culture / Ralph T. Coe
- Marginality and Intelligence in the Collecting of Native American Art / J. C. H. King
- "Full of Blood, Thunder and Springy Abandon": History, Text, and the Appreciation of Native American Art / Judith Ostrowitz
- Map: Major Cultural Areas of North America
- Catalogue / Ralph T. Coe
ISBN
- 0300101872
- 9780300101874
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