Native Art History Unmasked

I just reviewed this book for the Ormsby Review. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. Doing a review forces you to really think about what you are reading and this book still has me thinking it over. There is so much to learn by reading it. I could go on and on, but that would be silly since I already did that. You can read the full review here: Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast and if you are looking to purchase it, please support your local bookstore or you can purchase it from the publisher, the University of Washington Press.

I should also mention that the Ormsby Review reviews hundreds of books a year all related to British Columbia in some way. You can subscribe to receive emails summarizing recent reviews. From their website:

The Ormsby Review is a lively and inclusive Vancouver-based online journal devoted to the literature, arts, culture, and society of British Columbia. We find BC reviewers to review books written by BC writers or concerning BC topics. Most of the books we review come from members of the ABPBC (Association of Book Publishers of BC), but we also review books that are privately printed, self-published, or published by BC writers at publishing houses elsewhere in Canada. Ormsby’s mandate is to review BC books from any source. Our accessible and authoritative reviews and essays, written by experts in their fields, are packaged as illustrated magazine articles.

I also want to point readers to a very thoughtful essay published in the Ormsby Review “The Noise of Time” and the Removal of History? If you are interested in indigenous and non-indigenous “monuments to memory” totems/statues read on….