Robes of Splendor - George P. Horse Capture
Native American Painted Buffalo Hides
KORTE INHOUD
This is the first U.S. publication of an extraordinary collection of native American art, unknown to contemporary American audiences. For centuries, ornamental robes made of buffalo hide were painted by artists of the various Indian nations. Brought back to the French kings in the eighteenth century, the robes represented here are now housed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, and together they make a stunning tribute to a bygone art form. These robes, spectacularly executed and perfectly conserved, offer an incomparable pictographic representation of early native American life. As George P. Horse Capture observes in his essay on the craft and history of buffalo hide painting, we see the largely symbolic, complex geometric patterns painted by women contrasted with the more realistic, narrative scenes painted by men, depicting battles and dances. Both kinds of design played an important role in native American society as messages for tribe members, as well as for their visitors, and both share a powerful visual ...
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Hcloth, dust jacket, illustrations in colour. [Auteur: Horse Capture, George P. & Anne Vitart & Michel Waldberg & W. Richrd West, Jr.] [Pagina's: 143] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York, The New Press] [Jaar: 1993] [Titel: Robes of Splendor: Native American Painted Buffalo Hides]
