Navajo Sandpaintings (Revised) (Paperback, 3rd Revised ed.)

A superlative guide to traditional and contemporary Navajo sandpaintings. Few art forms are more significant to Navajo religious beliefs than the sandpainting, or ikaah. Sandpaintings play a major role in Navajo ceremonies, assisting healers to cure ailments by summoning the supreme beings' aid to restore harmony to both mind and body. In this clear, brief, yet profoundly informed text, Mark Bahti reviews the history of the sandpainting--from its original, and continuing, sacred purpose to the purely artistic creations produced and sold by some sandpainting artists today. With his collaborator, Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe, Bahti explains the meanings of the images and colors in sandpaintings and tells some of the traditional stories that they represent. Navajo Sandpaintings will enlighten both the amateur and the connoisseur of Navajo art.

General

Imprint:	Rio Nuevo Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Mark Bahti
As told to:	Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe
Dimensions:	230 x 202 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Sewn
Pages:	71
Edition:	3rd Revised ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-933855-28-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples
LSN:	1-933855-28-2
Barcode:	9781933855288

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