Edgar Heap of Birds

Anthes Bill Anthes

Description

For over three decades, contemporary Native American artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has pursued a disciplined practice in multiple media, having shown his paintings, drawings, prints, and text-based conceptual art throughout numerous national and international galleries and public spaces. In the first book-length study of this important artist, Bill Anthes analyzes Heap of Birds's art and politics in relation to the international contemporary art scene, Native American history, and settler colonialism. Foregrounding how Heap of Birds roots his practice in Cheyenne spirituality and an indigenous way of seeing and being in the world, Anthes describes how Heap of Birds likens his art to "sharp rocks"-weapons delivering trenchant critiques of the loss of land, life, and autonomy endured by Native Americans. Whether appearing as interventions in public spaces or in a gallery, Heap of Birds's carefully honed artworks pose questions about time, modernity, identity, power, and the meaning and value of contemporary art in a global culture.  

Sujets

• Indigenous peoples
• Americas

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 27 août 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822374992
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

E D G A R H E A P O F B I R D S

EDGAR

HEAP OF

BIRDS

BILL ANTHES

duke university press durham & london  2015

© 2015 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper∞ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Whitman by Copperline

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anthes, Bill. Edgar Heap of Birds / Bill Anthes. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978-0-8223-5981-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn978-0-8223-5994-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn978-0-8223-7499-2 (e-book) 1. Heap of Birds, Edgar—Criticism, interpretation, etc.i. Title. n6537.h383a58 2015 709.2—dc23 2015009508

Cover art: Edgar Heap of Birds,Neufseries, Nuance of Sky #3, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 44 inches. Artwork © Edgar Heap of Birds.

duke university press gratefully acknowledges the cheyenne and arapaho tribes and pitzer college, which provided support toward the publication of this book.

publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the wyeth foundation for american art publication fund of the college art association.

For Kelly and the girls

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS/ IX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS/ XIII

INTRODUCTION/ 1

1LAND/ 29

2 WORDS/ 67

3 HISTORIES/ 117

4 GENERATIONS/ 163

NOTES/ 181

BIBLIOGRAPHY/ 195

INDEX/ 201

C O N T E N T S

I L L U S T R AT I O N S

I.1  Edgar Heap of Birds,Beyond the Chief, 20092 I.2 Sisco, Louis Hock, and David Avalos, Elizabeth Welcome to America’s Finest Tourist Plantation, 19884 I.3  Gran Fury,Kissing Doesn’t Kill, 19895 I.4  Sam Durant,Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington D.C., 20058 I.5 Beyond the Chief, sign panel defaced in spring 200910 I.6  Yard signs in support ofBeyond the Chief, 200911 I.7 Heap of Birds, Edgar CPT , 200216 1.1  Edgar Heap of Birds,NeufSeries #1, 198130 1.2 tree, Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma Juniper 31 1.3  Edgar Heap of Birds,Neufseries,Nuance of Sky #1,201242 1.4 Heap of Birds, Edgar Neufseries,Nuance of Sky #2,201243 1.5  Edgar Heap of Birds,Neufseries,Nuance of Sky #3,201243 1.6 Heap of Birds, Edgar Neufseries,Nuance of Sky #4,201244 1.7  Edgar Heap of Birds,Neufpaintings at Acadia Studio, Bar Harbor, Maine, 199846 1.8 Heap of Birds, Edgar Neufseries scarf, 199248