Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection

Accompanying a major exhibition, this stunning volume serves as an introduction to North American Indian art and a rare opportunity to see this comprehensive and superb private collection. A glorious testament to the infinite beauty, diversity, and historical significance of Native American culture, Indigenous Beauty presents outstanding examples of art made by tribes across the North American continent. This aesthetically rich and inclusive collection offers a broad view of American Indian art, including sculpture from the Northwest Coast; ancient ivories from the Bering Strait region; Yup’ik and Alutiiq masks from the Western Arctic; Katsina dolls from the Southwest Pueblos; Southwest pottery; sculptural objects from the Eastern Woodlands; Eastern regalia; Plains regalia and pictographic arts; and Western baskets. David Penney’s introduction and texts by other renowned experts offer insight into the visual and material diversity of the collection, providing a greater understanding of the social and cultural worlds from which these works came. This magnificent survey is both an invaluable resource and a visual pleasure.

• Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
• First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art
• Native North American Art (Oxford History of Art)
• Ritual and Honour: Warriors of the North American Plains
• Living with American Indian Art: The Hirschfield Collection
• Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
• Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties
• First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art
• The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
• Monet and Architecture