Bill Reid And The Haida Canoe
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Bill Reid And The Haida Canoe
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Author : Martine Jeanne Reid
language : en
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company
Release Date : 2011
Bill Reid And The Haida Canoe written by Martine Jeanne Reid and has been published by Harbour Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
Northwest Coast peoples were maritime engineers who mastered the art of building dugout canoes from gigantic red cedars, using only tools made from bone, stone, and wood. Ubiquitous, these elegant craft were used for everyday and ceremonial purposes, for fishing, hunting and trading, for feasting and potlatching, and in warfare--they were the keys that unlocked the treasure chest of the North Pacific. Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe tells the story of the Northwest Canoe from its zenith in pre-contact times, through its decline in the late nineteenth century, to its revival in Lootaas (Wave Eater) which Bill Reid built for Expo '86, to its culmination with the Tribal Canoe Journeys of the twenty-first century and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii sculptures. Bill Reid expressed awe for the traditional Haida canoe and what it represents visually, symbolically, and culturally. In his words, "Western art starts with the figure--West Coast Indian art starts with the canoe." The successive journeys of Lootaas were significant stages in Bill Reid's work, which culminated with the iconic sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, a monumental bronze canoe filled to overflowing with creatures of Haida mythology (currently featured on the Canadian twenty-dollar bill). As a final creative act Bill Reid requested that, at the end of his life, his ashes be transported in Lootaas paddled by a crew of his Haida friends and relatives to Tanu, his grandmother's village in Gwaii Haanas. The story is told through writings and artworks by Bill Reid, vivid photographs by Phillip Hersee, Ulli Steltzer, Robert Semeniuk and others, texts by James Raffan, Martine J. Reid, and Mike Robinson and first-hand accounts by First Nations paddlers. Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe is a companion book to the Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe exhibition mounted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art and touring to the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario.
The Black Canoe
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Author : Robert Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Release Date : 1991
The Black Canoe written by Robert Bringhurst and has been published by Douglas & McIntyre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
This book is about Bill Reid's 'Spirit of Haida Gwaii', a sculpture commissioned for the courtyard of the new Canadian chancery in Washington, D.C., together with a brief summary of Haida history and culture and biography of Bill Reid.
The Black Canoe
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Author : Robert Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
Release Date : 1991
The Black Canoe written by Robert Bringhurst and has been published by Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Haida Indians categories.
This book is about Bill Reid's 'Spirit of Haida Gwaii', a sculpture commissioned for the courtyard of the new Canadian chancery in Washington, D.C., together with a brief summary of Haida history and culture and biography of Bill Reid.
Solitary Raven
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Author : Bill
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2012-03-23
Solitary Raven written by Bill and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-23 with Art categories.
A seminal collection of writing from one of Canada's most revered artists, spanning forty years of his life. When Haida sculptor and Canadian icon Bill Reid died, in the spring of 1998, he was more widely and more fervently admired than any other Native artist in North America. Although Reid attained his greatest fame in the visual arts, words were his first professional medium. Until he received his first large carving commission, in 1958, he made his living as a radio announcer and script writer. This work earned him the Haida name Kihlguulins, the "One with the Beautiful Voice." In his later years, Parkinson's disease curtailed his public speaking, but it did not prevent him writing. His oratorical and literary gifts are rightly part of the Reid legend. Recordings of his voice can still be played in a number of major museums around the world. Despite his gift for words, much of what he wrote was published only in newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogues. Some was made public in audio form but never printed, and some has languished in manuscript for years. This book collects, for the first time, the most important of these widely scattered writings: seminal statements on the art on the Northwest Coast, the role of the Native artist in a multicultural world, and the quintessential role of the environment to the survival of human culture.
Iljuwas Bill Reid
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Author : Gerald McMaster
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Art Library
Release Date : 2022-03-21
Iljuwas Bill Reid written by Gerald McMaster and has been published by Canadian Art Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-21 with categories.
Few twentieth-century artists were catalysts for the reclamation of a culture, but Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920-1998) was among them. The first book on the artist by an Indigenous scholar details Reid's incredible journey to becoming one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of our time. Born in British Columbia and denied his mother's Haida heritage in his youth, Iljuwas Bill Reid lived the reality of colonialism yet tenaciously forged a creative practice that celebrated Haida ways of seeing and making. Over his fifty-year career, he created nearly a thousand original works and dozens of texts, and he is remembered as a passionate artist, community activist, mentor, and writer. Reid was often said to embody the Raven, a trickster who transforms the world. He followed in the footsteps of his great-great-uncle, master Haida artist Daxhiigang (Charles Edenshaw), engaging with a culture whose practices were once banned by the Indian Act and producing symbols for a nation. His iconic large-scale works now occupy sites such as the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Reid's legacy is a complex story of power, resilience, and strength. In Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & Work, acclaimed scholar Gerald McMaster examines how the artist made a critical inquiry into his craft throughout his life, gaining a sense of identity, purpose, and impact.
The Spirit Of Haida Gwaii
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Author : Ulli Steltzer
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1997
The Spirit Of Haida Gwaii written by Ulli Steltzer and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Haida mythology categories.
The artist Bill Reid, who is part Haida, is internationally renowned for his totem poles and other large pieces, as well as for his work on a small scale in silver and gold. His masterpiece, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, is a bronze canoe six metres (20 feet) long, filled to overflowing with the creatures of Haida mythology. Ulli Steltzer's superb black-and-white photographs record and reveal intimate insights into the creative process of this sculpture, as well as the parts and the whole of this monumental work. The story of the sculpture and of its creator, Bill Reid, is engagingly related by Robin Laurence. And Bill Reid's own descriptions of the creatures in the canoe provide glimpses into the mythic complexity and power of The Spirit of Haida Gwaii.
Bill Reid Collected
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Bill Reid Collected written by and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Art categories.
Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver International Airport, and The Raven and the First Men, a yellow cedar carving. Both are featured on the Canadian $20 bill. In addition to the immense praise for his artwork, Reid received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1994. He continued to create stunning sculptures up until his death in 1998. Bill Reid Collected features the largest chronological collection of memorable works of Reid’s career in full-color photographs and images to date. Along with an introductory essay by Dr. Martine J. Reid, this collection pays tribute to one of Canada’s most renowned First Nations artists.
Bill Reid S Tupperware Fleet
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Author : Bryan Myles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Bill Reid S Tupperware Fleet written by Bryan Myles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
On October 21, 2015, the Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University (SFU) hosted an uts'am, a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh witnessing ceremony, to welcome a canoe created by Bill Reid to SFU's mountain-top campus located on unceded Coast Salish territory. During the event, SFU's president spoke of the canoe in reference to the university's commitment to Aboriginal students and Canada's ongoing Truth and Reconciliation process. A spokesperson for the Bill Reid Foundation spoke about Bill Reid's legacy, Reid's interest in the canoe form, and the travels and achievements of Reid's famed cedar canoe Loo Taas (Wave Eater). Also in attendance, speakers from the Haida and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh nations articulated their personal and community connections to Reid, to Loo Taas, and to the impact Reid's canoe had on their communities. These speakers also recounted their use of and rights to their territories and resources, and made references to family, colonization, political activism, and repatriation. Although the intercultural dynamics at the SFU uts'am are interesting, the event was unique for another reason. The object that the speakers were talking about was not Bill Reid's famed cedar canoe, Loo Taas, but a replica he called Black Eagle. Black Eagle is one of four fiberglass reproductions of Loo Taas created in the late 1980s, which Bill Reid jokingly referred to as his "Tupperware Fleet". Reid's Tupperware Fleet raises a number of interesting questions about how objects are constituted differently by different people in different places, and the ways in which objects accumulate meaning. The Tupperware Fleet also offers a unique case from which to explore the relationship between reproductions and originals, and the value attributed to each. This research and dissertation investigates these inter-related topics through my own position within an unfolding narrative, and through a biographical exploration of the four canoes that comprise the Tupperware Fleet. Based on the biographies I've composed for each of the canoes, I've identified three analytical paradigms: object-as-illustration, object-as-specimen, and object-as-embedded, in which the canoes circulate. I contend that the canoes are ontologically generated with the worlds they themselves play a role in constituting, and show how they are in a continual state of emergence with the various people, places, institutions, and objects with which they are entangled.
Bill Reid
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Author : Karen Duffek
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Bill Reid written by Karen Duffek and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Social Science categories.
According to eminent French anthropologist Levi-Strauss, Reid "brought Northwest Coast art to the world scene, into dialogue with the whole of mankind." In this artistic biography, Karen Duffek gives an account of Bill Reid's life and work and of his role as artist, innovator, and ambassador of Haida art. After describing the processes by which Reid came to reconstruct the formal rules of a complex artistic tradition, Duffek focuses on his mastery of new techniques, particularly in making jewellery, techniques which others now emulate. In the key chapter "Beyond the Essential Form," she uses Reid's own categories of his work as "copies, adaptations and explorations," to give a candid appraisal of his artistic achievements -- from massive poles to gold boxes, from intricate bracelets to the great bronze Killerwhale statue.
Bill Reid And Beyond
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Author : Karen Duffek
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Bill Reid And Beyond written by Karen Duffek and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Art categories.
A fresh perspective from Haida leaders, art and cultural historians, anthropologists and artists on the lasting legacy of the famed Haida artist Bill Reid.