Like few of his contemporaries, Norman Feder helped shape the study
of American Indian art. In a career spanning four decades as
hobbyist craftsman, author, curator, and editor, Feder contributed
to the theoretical and methodological foundation of a discipline
about to emerge from the narrow interests of museum anthropologists
and devoted amateurs into public prominence and widespread
appreciation. Feder entered the field without the benefit of
academic training, but with a profound firsthand knowledge of the
importance of techniques for an understanding of Native American
visual forms of expression. Among his lasting contributions is the
explicit recognition of the historical nature of these art forms,
of the resulting significance of documented collections and
information contained in early drawings and photographs for a
placement of artifact styles in time and space, and of the
usefulness of studies of artifact types or genres in Native
American art. In this volume a group of American, Canadian, and
European anthropologists, art historians, and collectors explore
topics relating to FederOs far-ranging interests in Native American
art and shed light on his background and achievements. Essays by
Arthur C. Einhorn, Joyce Herold, Tilly Laskey, Roanne P. Goldfein,
Christian F. Feest, Steven C. Brown, Colin F. Taylor, Bill Holm,
Arni Brownstone, Imre Nagy, Molly Lee, Marvin Cohodas, Ruth B.
Phillips, Sally McLendon, William C. Sturtevant, and Sylvia S.
Kasprycki deal with works from different regions, time periods, and
traditional forms of expression of Native North America."
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