Explore the life and art of legendary Navajo silversmith Fred
Peshlakai, and see how his masterful art began and evolved.
Beginning with the history of the Navajo people, it follows world
events impacting the American Southwest and the Navajo culture
precipitating in the development of their unique expressions of art
rendered with silver and stone. Nineteenth-century evolution of the
art form is reviewed, shining a particular light on certain
ambiguities regarding important interrelationships between its most
famous figures. Fred Peshlakai hailed from one of the most
recognized artistic bloodlines of his noble people. This book is
the beginning catalogue of his beautiful silver artwork with
hundreds of images and their individual technical and artistic
expressions discussed. No longer mythical, Fred Peshlakai is shown
to be one of the most, if not the most, influential Navajo artisan
to impact the creation of Navajo Silver Art and his art the
world-class art treasures that they truly are.
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