Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style. by Bernstein, Bruce and W Jackson Rushing - 1995.

Santa Fe, New Mexico:: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with gilt; a Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the jacket has three tiny blemishes on the front panel.. 11.25 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide . Notes, bibliography. Peach-orange endpapers. Description: 84 color plates. The publisher's blurb reads: ''The fine-art studio of the Santa Fe Indian School, directed by Dorothy Dunn beginning in 1932, was a major force in bringing American Indian painting to national and worldwide attention. Through the collection that Dunn assembled over a lifetime, presented here for the first time, important works by such distinguished artists as Allan Houser, Joe H Herrera, Oscar Howe, and Pablita Velarde exemplify the Studio's emphasis on a naturalistic flat-art style and Dunn's educational approach that encouraged traditional modernism as a synthesis of ancient and contemporary forms. Students at the Studio ranged from eleven to twenty-one and were drawn largely from the southwestern and plains tribal areas. Unexposed to formal art education, these students nonetheless came from a Native artistic tradition that expressed itself through a modern language of symbolism and abstraction to render ageless themes and motifs. Dunn acted a conduit between her young students and their ancient visual traditions and contemporary Indian lives.''