Not Native American Art? Forgeries, Replicas, and Other Vexed Identities

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Thursday, May 11
5 p.m.

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Not Native American ArtIn Native North American artistic traditions, what is a replica? What constitutes a copy? In contrast to the larger field of art history, there is almost no literature on forgeries and replicas in this sub-field. Janet Catherine Berlo's talk, adapted from the introduction to her forthcoming book, Not Native American Art, considers notions of replicas, copies, forgeries, and pastiches as they apply to archaeological, historical, and contemporary Native arts of North America.

About the Speaker
Janet Catherine Berlo is Professor Emerita of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, in upstate New York. She holds a Ph.D. in history of art from Yale, and is the author of the widely used textbook Native North American Art (with Canadian scholar Ruth Phillips). Janet is best known for her work on 19th century Plains Indian drawings, including the traveling exhibition and catalogue Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935, and the book Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk’s Vision of a Lakota World. Her essays have been published in numerous journals and exhibition catalogues. She has taught Native art history as a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and has received grants from the Guggenheim and Getty Foundations.  She is talking about her forthcoming book Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions, which will be out in November from the University of Washington Press.

This event is FREE and open to all and is made possible with support from Friends of Native Art.