Woodland Reflections

The Art of Truman Lowe

Buch | Hardcover

2004
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-19310-2 (ISBN)

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This illustrated book is a specific and respectful treatment of a Native American artist and sculptor. It examines his work in multiple contexts, including his personal history and the social, political, intellectual and cultural spheres in which he lives and works.

Woodland Reflections explores the art and influences of Truman Lowe, a sculptor whose large abstract works in wood and metal are inspired by many elements of Lowe's world, among them river eddies, willows, waterfalls, bluffs and dunes, and the architecture of the handmade canoe. An internationally acclaimed artist whose works are displayed in major museums, Lowe grew up on the banks of Wisconsin's Black River, where his parents were skilled makers of splint-plait baskets and other crafts from their Ho-Chunk tradition. There are relatively few books on contemporary fine art made by Native Americans, and many of these reproduce old stereotypes. This amply illustrated book is a specific and respectful treatment of a Native artist as an artist. It examines Lowe's work in multiple contexts, including his personal history and the social, political, intellectual, and cultural spheres in which he lives and works. The artist's voice throughout the book is clear and constant: the text is based on extensive interviews with Truman Lowe and on the recent history of the Wisconsin Ho-Chunk, Equally important, the book relates Lowe's art both to mainstream modernist art theory and to contemporary cultural theories of Native critics and scholars.

Jo Ortel is Associate Professor of Art History at Beloit College. Her articles and reviews have appeared in such publications as "New Art Examiner" and "SPOT." She is the 2003 recipient of the James R. Underkofler Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Truman Lowe is a Professor in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin Madison and curator of contemporary art for the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of the American Indian, which will open in Washington, D.C. in 2004. He has exhibited at such venues as the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, the National Gallery of Art in Ottawa, Ontario, and the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College in Wisconsin. One of his large outdoor sculptures was included in an exhibit at the White House in 1998."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.5.2004
Zusatzinfo	49 colour photographs, 48 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-299-19310-1 / 0299193101
ISBN-13	978-0-299-19310-2 / 9780299193102
Zustand	Neuware