The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction 1. Unpacking the Indian Corner; 2. The White Man's Indian Art: Teaching Aesthetics at the Indian Schools; 3. Playing Indian: Native American Art and Modern Aesthetics; 4. The Indians in Kasebier's Studio; 5. Angel DeCora's Cultural Politics Epilogue Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

"The Indian Craze is not only a delight to read; it is a major contribution to American visual cultural studies. Wearing her erudition lightly, Elizabeth Hutchinson participates in and adds appreciably to the transcultural critiques that so many of us are interested in now." Janet Berlo, co-author of Native North American Art "The Indian Craze is a lucid and compelling account of the entangled histories of Native and European-American aesthetic and intersubjective exchange in the formative years of American modernism. Told with deep historical understanding, it restores subjecthood and agency to Native artists too often deprived of both by the persistence of primitivizing attitudes. Such studies as Elizabeth Hutchinson's offer a very different, insistently hybrid history of modernism, sensitive to the ethical ambiguities that reside in virtually every instance of uneven encounter between colonizer and colonized. This is a long-awaited contribution to how we understand the complex cultural negotiations attendant on the growing aesthetic value accorded to Native arts around the turn-of-the-century." Angela Miller, lead author of American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity