Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form
- ISBN-10
- 0774844876
- ISBN-13
- 9780774844871
- Series
- Bill Reid
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-01
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Author
- Karen Duffek
Description
According to eminent French anthropologist Levi-Strauss, Reid "brought Northwest Coast art to the world scene, into dialogue with the whole of mankind." In this artistic biography, Karen Duffek gives an account of Bill Reid's life and work and of his role as artist, innovator, and ambassador of Haida art. After describing the processes by which Reid came to reconstruct the formal rules of a complex artistic tradition, Duffek focuses on his mastery of new techniques, particularly in making jewellery, techniques which others now emulate. In the key chapter "Beyond the Essential Form," she uses Reid's own categories of his work as "copies, adaptations and explorations," to give a candid appraisal of his artistic achievements -- from massive poles to gold boxes, from intricate bracelets to the great bronze Killerwhale statue.
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