Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum

Fairbanks, AK and Seattle, WA: University of Alaska Museum; University of Washington Press, 1998. 206 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The University of Alaska Museum's collection of Alaskan art ranges from two-thousand-year-old ivory carvings to paintings done in the 1990s. Looking North presents 138 of the Museum's most treasured works from the archaeology, ethnology, and fine arts collections. Among them are ancient artifacts as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century artworks by Athabaskan, Aleut, Yupik, Inupiat, Haida, Tlingit, and other Alaska Natives. Historical painting is represented by the canvases of well-known artists such as Sydney Laurence, Rockwell Kent, and Henry Wood Elliott. Works by George Aghupuk and Florence Malewotkuk are among the Eskimo drawings and watercolors included. Images by James H. Barker and others present Alaska through photographs." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgments, by Aldona Jonaitis; 1. Looking North, by Aldona Jonaitis; 2. Resonance of Memory; 3. Making Authentic Art for Sale; 4. Categories; 5. Images of Natives; 6. Landscape; 7. A Sense of Place; 8. Conversations among Alaskan Artists; 9. Final Thoughts; 10. A Sense of Wonder, by Kesler Woodward.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.