Art and the Native American: Perceptions, Reality, and Influences

Contents Introduction Acknowledgments 1. Why are Native Americans (still) Called “Indians”? The Illuminating Example of Giovanni di Paolo’s Quattrocento Mappamundi 2. Between Science and The European Representation of America, 1500-1800 3. “Een West-Indien Landtschap met Vreemt Ghebouw” Jan Mostaert on the Architectural Primitivism Characterizing a “Golden Age” Reborn in the New World 4. Cooper, Cole and The Last of the Mohicans 5. Carpeaux’s Art and Sculptural Politics 6. Nineteenth Century Haida Argillite Documents of Cultural Encounter 7. “Maids of Palastine” Pueblo Pots, Potters, and the Politics of Representation 8. Art and Indian Culture at the Crossroads of a New A Postlude to the Exhibition “Lost and Found Native American Art 1965-1985” 9. The Collection of the North and Central American Department of the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna