Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been
derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from
images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans
are grouped as a whole and their art and culture considered part of
the past rather than widely present. Shapeshifting challenges these
assumptions by focusing on the objects as art rather than cultural
or anthropological artifacts and on the multivalent creativity of
Native American artists. The approach highlights the inventive
contemporaneity that existed in all periods and continues today.
More than 75 works in a wide range of media and scale are organized
into four thematic groups: changing-expanding the imagination;
knowing-expressing worldview; locating-exploring identity and
place; and voicing-engaging the individual. The result is a
paradigm shift in understanding Native American art. Published in
association with the Peabody Essex Museum Exhibition Schedule:
Peabody Essex Museum(01/14/12 - 04/29/12)
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