Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles 1880-2010
Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles 1880-2010 traces the history of model totem poles from the end of the 19th century to the present. This ground-breaking hardcover book, containing more than 300 illustrations, documents the exhibition presented at the Mendel Art Gallery in 2010 and shares it with a wider audience. Exhibition curators and authors, Michael D. Hall and Pat Glascock, join internationally recognized scholars and artists, Aldona Jonaitis, Robert Davidson, Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Kate Duncan, Aaron Glass, and Christopher Smith, to examine the issues of politics, cultural identity, tradition and economics that have shaped the evolution of the model totem pole for over 130 years. Carvings and Commerce is the first comprehensive publication to consider the model totem pole with such breadth of research and insight.
The catalogue is available for purchase in the Gallery Shop at the Mendel Art Gallery.
Full colour, 223 pp., $60.00
Mendel Art Gallery in association with University of Washington Press, 2011
ISBN 978-0-295-99149-8
