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Ted Lambert The Man Behind the Paintings
ISBN: PB: 9781602231658, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a co...
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£19,00
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Giinaquq Like a Face Suqpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago
ISBN: PB: 9781602230491, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2009
200 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 240 colour plates
Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been...
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£20,50
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Art and Eskimo Power The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock
ISBN: PB: 9781602230217, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2008
258 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, black and white photos
At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people fro...
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£13,00
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Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity
ISBN: PB: 9781889963822, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2007
312 pp., 26.8x21.5 cm, 220 colour plates, 85 halftones, 2 colour maps
Ranging from the islands of the Bering Sea to Alaska's interior forests,"Alaska Native Art" celebrates the rich art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the vibrant role it cont...
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£25,00
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Eskimo Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780912006697, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 1997
83 pp., 23.3x21.7 cm, black&white photos
Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alaska during the late 1930s. His work is remarkable because he emphasized drawing, carving, and painting as part of a narrative process instead of focusing o...
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£11,50
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