[PDF] Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe by From Routledge at Arts-Photography

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In Indians in Color; noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West; Denzin zeroes in on painting movements in Taos; New Mexico over the past century. Part performance text; part art history; part cultural criticism; part autoethnography; he once again demonstrates the power of visual media to reify or resist racial and cultural stereotypes; moving us toward a more nuanced view of contemporary Native American life. In this book; Denzin-contrasts the aggrandizement by collectors and museums of the art created by the early 20th century Taos Society of Artists under railroad sponsorship with that of indigenous Pueblo painters;-shows how these tensions between mainstream and Native art remains today; and-introduces a radical postmodern artistic aesthetic of contemporary Native artists that challenges notions of the ldquo;noble savage.rdquo;