Native American Picture Books of Change. The Art of Historic Children's Editions
by Benes, Rebecca C
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004 First edition. Foreword by Gloria Emerson. Oblong quarto. xvi, 168pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white including photographs, reproductions, facsimiles. Notes, bibliography, list of picture books by author, list of picture books by artist, index. Gray-green cloth. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A good rundown of the children's books of the twentieth century illustrated by Native American artists. The book documents four decades of these storybooks for Pueblo, Hopi, Navajo and Sioux children. These works showcased many of the important emerging Indian artists of the period including Andrewe Tsinajinnie, Hoke Denetsosie, Velino Herrera and many others..
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7865
- Title
- Native American Picture Books of Change. The Art of Historic Children's Editions
- Author
- Benes, Rebecca C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Native Americans, American Indians, Children's Books, Reference, Artists, Art, Andrewe Tsinajinnie, Hoke Denetsosie, Velino Herrera
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