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Santa Fe Indian Market - A History of Native Arts & the Marketplace (Paperback)
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Santa Fe Indian Market - A History of Native Arts & the Marketplace (Paperback)
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Each August, one hundred thousand people attend Indian Market in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, the nation's largest and most anticipated
Native arts event. One thousand artists, representing 160 tribes,
nations, and villages from the United States and Canada, proudly
display and sell their works of art, ranging from pottery and
basketry to contemporary paintings and sculptures. The history of
Indian Market as related in this new publication is the story of
Indian cultural arts in the twentieth century beginning with Edgar
L. Hewett and the founding of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe
in 1909. At the turn of the last century, the notion of Indian art
as art in its own right and not ethnography was a foreign concept.
With the arrival of the railroad and tourism in New Mexico, two
thousand years of utilitarian Pueblo pottery tradition gave way to
a curio trade intended for visitors to the area. The curators and
archaeologists at the Museum of New Mexico began to collect
prehistoric and historic pottery and encouraged potters to make
pottery modeled on traditional ideas thought to represent authentic
culture. Maria and Julian Martinez countered the idea that art was
a matter of studying the past when in 1922, at the first "Indian
Fair", they introduced their revolutionary Black-on-black pottery.
Bruce Bernstein links these early developments to Indian Market's
ninety-year relationship with Native arts, cultural movements,
historical events, and the ever-evolving creativity of Native
artists to shape their market.
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