Challenging Traditions - Ian M. Thom

Challenging Traditions - Ian M. ThomContemporary First Nations artists of the Northwest Coast have long been among the most dynamic, important artists working in North America. Their art is a visible manifestation of the extraordinary cultural explosion that has transformed First Nations life up and down the B. C. coast. Through their own words and artwork, Ian Thom examines the career, working methods and philosophy of forty active artists, all of whom he has interviewed. Featured in

These writers from two continents and four countries are Ainu from Japan

Karin Clark

massive post-and-beam houses

carving out a home and a career in a place far from just about everyone

Book 1: Stone introduces Edwin

Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic

Sarah Prout (Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health

They are a kind of payment to remember

It identifies the sources of object types and styles and reveals the innovative differences displayed by Aboriginal trade wares

as father and his son reconcile their past and begin a new journey

theoretically informed studies of communities and issues

the death of his family from the illness