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Alaska Native Art: Tradition-Innovation-Continuity.

Publication: Arctic
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Alaska Native Art: Tradition-Innovation-Continuity.(Book review)

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ALASKA NATIVE ART: TRADITION-INNOVATION-CONTINUITY. By SUSAN W. FAIR for the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Edited by JEAN BLODGETT. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. ISBN 13: 978-1-889963-79-2. xxxi + 280 p., maps, b & w and colour illus., notes, bib., index. Hardbound. US$65.00.

I had the pleasure of personally knowing and working in Alaska with the late Dr. Susan W. Fair, author of Alaska Native Art: Tradition-Innovation-Continuity. While reading this book, I felt Susie's profound passion for Native arts and her sensitivity towards its makers come alive through her comprehensive documentation of 20th-century Alaska Native art. This groundbreaking work covers a broad range of issues surrounding the cultural transmission, production, consumption, and exhibition of Alaska Native art, all revolving around the theme of tradition. Chapters cover the scope of arts made by Eskimo and Indian groups within the state, art-making practices, exhibiting of Native art, the relationship between place and object, modes of passing on tradition, and the celebration of Native artists as creative individuals who have...

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