Displaying 1 of 1 1999 Format: Book Author: Malin, Edward, author. Title: Northwest coast Indian painting : house fronts and interior screens / Edward Malin. Publisher, Date: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 1999. Description: 288 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 x 29 cm Summary: Explores the house art of Northwest Coast Native Americans, describing the styles, foundations, regional traditions, and artists of house painting, including more than one hundred illustrations and photos. Subjects: Indian decoration and ornament -- Northwest Coast of North America. Indian painting -- Northwest Coast of North America. Dwellings -- Decoration -- Northwest Coast of North America. Painted woodwork -- Northwest Coast of North America. Indian painting -- British Columbia. Indian painting -- Alaska. Notes: Paperback ed. published 2006. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283) and index. Contents: Native Culture and the Painting Tradition -- The Explorers' Observations -- The Geographic Distribution of the Paintings -- The Foundations of the Painting Tradition -- The Village -- The House Group -- House Names -- The Crest System -- Mythology and Two-Dimensional Painting -- The Northern Style -- House Front and Facade Paintings -- Interior Screens -- Tlingit Screens and Emblems -- Tlingit House Front Paintings -- Tsimshian Background to Painting -- Tsimshian Paintings -- Haida Paintings -- The Central and Southern Traditions -- Northern Kwakiutl Paintings -- Bella Coola Paintings -- Southern Kwakiutl Paintings -- Southern Kwakiutl Variations in Painting -- Nuu chaa nulth Paintings -- Coast Salish Painting -- Characteristics of Northwest Coast Native Flat Painting -- Content of the Paintings -- The Question of Provenance -- Color -- Wood -- The Arrangement of Figures -- Bilateral Symmetry -- Horror Vacui -- The X-Ray Motif -- The Anatomy of the Face -- Eye and Face Designs -- The Extraordinary Place of the Tongue -- Appendages -- The Native Artist and His World -- A Few Known Artists -- Apprenticeship of Young Artists -- The Transitional Artists -- The Commissioning of a Painting -- The Artist at Work -- The Remarkable Case of the Rain Wall Screen -- A New Life -- The Great Surge Forward -- Resurrecting the House Front Painting -- The Return of the Interior Screen -- Drawings (figures) -- Photographs (plates). LCCN: 98039230 ISBN: 0881924717 9780881924718 9780881927702 0881927708 Other Number: 39706886 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 70320 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 759.195 Malin Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
