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The Comitán Valley : sculpture and identity on the Maya frontier / by Earley, Caitlin,author.(CARDINAL)859113;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index.The edge of the Maya world : an introduction -- Kings and captives at Tenam Puente -- Bodies in the ballcourt : art and identity at Tenam Rosario -- Rulers and ritual at Chinkultic -- Art and the ancestors at Quen Santo -- Transformation : Comitán and the Postclassic -- Conclusion : frontiers, identity, and the Comitán style."The Comitán Valley sits in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico, but a thousand years ago it was the western fringe of the Maya empire. The art in Comitán looks different from the art found in the nearest Maya capitals like Palenque and Yaxchilan, but also incorporates essential Maya techniques and ideas. For many years, those who bothered to study the art of Comitán, particularly the more than 100 large, carved stone sculptures, were confused, "as if local artists were somehow unable to grasp the tenets of Maya sculpture. This book suggests that those unusual artistic elements are not the result of the misunderstanding of Maya artistic canons--instead, they represent the active appropriation and manipulation of those canons. Artists in the Comitán Valley created sculptures with unique combinations of the widespread and the local, and those sculptures played a meaningful role in the creation of identity at each area center." This book looks at the stelae in the four major cities of ancient Comitán: Tenam Puente, Tenam Rosario, Chinkultic, and Quen Santo. Interestingly, the art was distinct at each place. At Tenam Puente, artists favored the depiction of warrior kings, bolstering the site's position as a local economic power. At Tenam Rosario, sculpture revolved around the Maya ballgame, while sculptors from Chinkultic prioritized representations of ritual. The monuments of Quen Santo depict ancestors and were placed deep inside caves beneath the city. "As a group, these sites showcase diverse approaches to the creation and display of sculpture, making this area an ideal place to study innovation in Maya art." It also supports the author's ideas about how sculpture helped create local identity. Many of these sculptures in this book, including some from each site, will be illustrated for the first time. Finally, the art in Comitán offers new ideas and support about the collapse of the Maya. Unlike other parts of the Maya world, in Comitán the collapse did not lead to a complete cessation of sculpture-making, and existing sculptures were sometimes reconceived rather than abandoned"--

Subjects: Maya sculpture; Stele (Archaeology); Maya sculpture; Stele (Archaeology);

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Shapeshifting : transformations in Native American art / by Kramer, Karen,1971-author.(CARDINAL)854091; Ash-Milby, Kathleen E.,contributor.(CARDINAL)687617; Berlo, Janet Catherine,author.(CARDINAL)179734; Bernstein, Bruce,author.(CARDINAL)527325; English, Karah,contributor.(CARDINAL)854088; Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)163863; Horse Capture, Joseph D.,author.(CARDINAL)854090; Horton, Jessica L.,author.(CARDINAL)854089; Jonaitis, Aldona,1948-contributor.(CARDINAL)181905; Kropa, Madeleine M.,contributor.(CARDINAL)854087; Monroe, Dan L.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)854084; Morris, Kate,1966-contributor.(CARDINAL)854086; Rice, Ryan,1965-contributor.(CARDINAL)854085; Smith, Paul Chaat,author.(CARDINAL)226577; Peabody Essex Museum,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)218349; Yale University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332061;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture considered part of the past rather than widely present. This work challenges these assumptions by focusing on the objects as art rather than cultural or anthropological artifacts and on the multivalent creativity of Native American artists. The approach highlights the inventive contemporaneity that existed in all periods and continues today. More than 75 works in a wide range of media and scale are organized into four thematic groups: changing, expanding the imagination; knowing, expressing worldview; locating, exploring identity and place; and voicing, engaging the individual. The result is a paradigm shift in understanding Native American art.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Exhibition catalogs.; Indian art; Shapeshifting;

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Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning / by Hong, Cathy Park,author.(CARDINAL)540541;

United -- stand up -- the end of white innocence -- bad English -- portrait of an artist -- the indebted."Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of "minor feelings." As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality--when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche--and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth"--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Hong, Cathy Park.; Asian Americans; Asian American women; Poets, American;

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Just so happens / by Obata, Fumio,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)615379;

"Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away--until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life--fish bars, bullet trains, pagodas--as she confronts the question of where her future really lies. Just So Happens deals both gently and powerfully with grief, identity, and the pressure not to disappoint one's parents, even after they're gone, in a look at the relationships that build the foundation of our lives"--GN360LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Loss (Psychology); Graphic novels;

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A portion of the people : three hundred years of southern Jewish life / by Rosengarten, Theodore.(CARDINAL)173329; Rosengarten, Dale,1948-(CARDINAL)273150; McKissick Museum.(CARDINAL)181734;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.In the year 1800, South Carolina was home to more Jews than any other place in North America. As old as the province of Carolina itself, the Jewish presence has been a vital but little-examined element in the growth of cities and towns, in the economy of slavery and post-slavery society, and in the creation of American Jewish religious identity. The record of a landmark exhibition that will change the way people think about Jewish history and American history, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life presents a remarkable group of art and cultural objects and a provocative investigation of the characters and circumstances that produced them. The book and exhibition are the products of a seven-year collaboration by the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Jews;

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The underdogs serve it up / by Temple, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)603375; Temple, Jol,author.(CARDINAL)603374; Gordon, Shiloh,illustrator.(CARDINAL)860217;

In their latest case, the Underdogs must fetch the identity of a tennis ball thief.Ages 6-9 years.570L

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Animal fiction.; Dogs; Cats; Tennis stories.; Detective and mystery stories; Humorous stories;

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Book club bag. The personal librarian [kit] / by Benedict, Marie,author.(CARDINAL)414780; Murray, Victoria Christopher,author.(CARDINAL)534122;

"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white--her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go--for the protection of her family and her legacy--to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives"--Provided by publisher.For adult use.

Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Greene, Belle da Costa; Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913; Pierpont Morgan Library; African American women librarians; Passing (Identity); Racism against Black people;

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Flashes of a southern spirit : meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / by Wilson, Charles Reagan.(CARDINAL)149277;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: "The soul-life of the land": meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South -- 1. Tradition -- The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880-1930 -- The burden of southern culture -- Saturated southerners : the South's poor whites and southern regional consciousness -- Our land, our country : Faulkner, the South, and the American way of life -- The myth of the biracial South -- Visualizing the spirit after -- 2. Creativity -- Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart : creativity and southern culture -- Flashes of the spirit : creativity and southern religion -- The word and the image : self-taught art, the Bible, the spirit, and southern creativity -- 3. Spirituality -- Apocalypse South : McKendree Long and southern evangelicalism -- "Just a little talk with Jesus" : Elvis Presley, religious music, and southern spirituality -- Richard Wright's Pagan Spain : a southern Protestant abroad -- A journey to southern religious studies -- Afterword : constructing and experiencing the spirit.Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson shows how identifications of the spirit are crucial to understanding what makes southerners invest so much meaning in their regional identity.

Subjects: Regionalism; Group identity; Spiritual life; Spirituality;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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The unwritten : Tommy Taylor and the bogus identity / by Carey, Mike,1959-author.(CARDINAL)687733; Chuckry, Chris,illustrator.(CARDINAL)541392; Gross, Peter,1958-author.(CARDINAL)393391; Klein, Todd,illustrator.(CARDINAL)381651; McGee, Jeanne,1965-illustrator.(CARDINAL)411379;

"Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now, to protect his life and discover the truth behind his origins, Tom will travel the world, to all the places in world history where fictions have shaped reality" -- from publisher's web site.Suggested for mature readers.

Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Characters and characteristics in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept); Magicians;

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Beyond Mammy, Jezebel & Sapphire : reclaiming images of Black women : works from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation / by Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation,issuing body.(CARDINAL)589887; Wangechi Mutu,artist.(CARDINAL)342611; Amin, Takiyah Nur,contributor.(CARDINAL)853400; Bearden, Romare,1911-1988,artist.(CARDINAL)122294; Boles, Velva,contributor.(CARDINAL)853399; Colescott, Robert,1925-2009,artist.(CARDINAL)193627; Gallagher, Ellen,1965-artist.(CARDINAL)226977; Garcia, Claire Oberon,1956-contributor.(CARDINAL)853398; Gumpper, Jean,contributor.(CARDINAL)853397; Howard, Mildred,1945-artist.(CARDINAL)853392; Hunter-Larsen, Jessica,curator,contributor.(CARDINAL)853402; Leonard, Kate,contributor.(CARDINAL)853396; Lewis, Heidi R.,wrtier of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)853404; Mitchell, Roland(Roland W.),wrtier of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)853403; Patton, Venetria K.,1968-contributor.(CARDINAL)656546; Pears, Catherine M.,write of preface.; Saar, Alison,artist.(CARDINAL)201821; Schnitzer, Jordan D.,collector, contributor.(CARDINAL)282838; Sibley, Sha'Condria,contributor.(CARDINAL)853395; Simmons, Karen Riley,contributor.(CARDINAL)853394; Simpson, Lorna,1960-artist.(CARDINAL)205853; Taaffe, Claudine,contributor.(CARDINAL)853393; Thomas, Mickalene,1971-artist.(CARDINAL)316691; Valentine, Megan,curator,contributor.(CARDINAL)853401; Walker, Kara Elizabeth,artist.(CARDINAL)266792; Alexandria Museum of Art (Alexandria, La.),host institution.(CARDINAL)193498; Colorado College,host institution.(CARDINAL)853391;

Includes bibliographical references.Artwork by Romare Bearden, Robert H. Colescott, Ellen Gallagher, Mildred Howard, Alison Saar, Wangechi Mutu, Lorna Simpson, Michalene Thomas, and Kara Walker."Engaging a wide range of experiences and artistic practices, the nine artists featured in this exhibition challenge the controlling images of Black women that continue to pervade our culture and influence perceptions. Their artworks jar loose expectations and replace simplistic narratives with nuanced, sophisticated meditations on contemporary identity. The essays in this publication similarly present a variety of perspectives on the artworks and the ideas they present. Contributions from a diverse group of accomplished scholars, activists, artists, and writers provide multiple viewpoints from which to consider the exhibition and the questions it presents. Together, the artists' works and the author's voices reveal the complexity of identity, the necessity for self-determination, and the power of art to stimulate dialogue."--Publisher's description

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation; African American art; African American artists; African American women artists; African American women in art; Art; Black people in art; Exhibition catalogs.; Feminism in art;

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