This illustrated historical overview features some of the finest
examples of Cherokee art in private, corporate, and museum
collections here and abroad. As Susan C. Power ranges across the
rich legacy of Cherokee artistic achievement from the sixteenth
century to the present, she discusses such objects as baskets,
masks, beaded and embroidered garments, jewelry, and paintings.
Power draws on archival and scholarly sources and, when possible,
the artists' own words as she interprets these objects in terms of
their design, craftsmanship, style, and most important, their
function and meaning in Cherokee history and culture. In addition
to recognizing artistic merit and significant contributions to the
development of Cherokee art, Power reveals the wide range of
geographical locales from which Cherokee art has originated. This
includes the Cherokee's tribal homeland in the Southeast, the
tribe's areas of resettlement in the West, and places in the United
States and beyond to which individuals subsequently moved.
Intimately connected to the time and place of its creation,
Cherokee art changed along with Cherokee social, political, and
economic circumstances. The entry of European explorers into the
Southeast, the Trail of Tears, the American Civil War, and the
signing of treaties with the U.S. government are among the
transforming events in Cherokee art history that Power discusses.
In the twentieth century, as Cherokee artists joined the mainstream
art world, they helped shape the Native American Fine Art Movement.
Today, Cherokee artists continue to create in an artistic voice
that is uniquely Cherokee - a voice that is both traditional and
contemporary.
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