Not Native American art : fakes, replicas, and invented traditions / Janet Catherine Berlo ; foreword by Joe D. Horse Capture.

Author/creator Berlo, Janet Catherine author.
Other author Horse Capture, Joseph D. writer of foreword.
Format Book
PublicationSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
Descriptionxxi, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: of "Santa fakes" and other illusions -- Authenticity and Its discontents: what Is "real" Native American art? -- Cultural cross-dressers: a long history of imitating Indians -- Replication and reproduction on the Great Plains of nostalgia -- The deliberate forgery, the accidental fake, the visual fiction, and the replica -- Cross-cultural replication and Native revitalization: techniques of remembering -- Conclusion: vexed identities and the "destruction of mimicry" in the twenty-first century.
Abstract "Following more than a decade of research on various kinds of inauthentic Native American art, Janet Berlo presents a series of cases that demonstrate the range and complexity of the issues at stake. From Native and non-Native artists commissioned by Native communities to make replicas of original Native artistic works to non-Natives creating Native style art for commercial gain to uses of pastiche and obfuscation in creating artistic objects for various purposes, Berlo looks at misrepresentation and replication in nuanced and careful detail"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (287-319) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Berlo, Janet Catherine. Not Native American art Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] 9780295751375
LCCN 2023007534
ISBN9780295751368 hardcover
ISBN0295751363 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book