Indian Lives and Legends
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In INDIAN LIVES AND LEGENDS Mildred Valley Thornton, artist, author and lecturer, presents in her first book a pleasing and faithful portraiture of a Western Canadian Indian generation that is all but gone.
Her work of painting the Indians has been in itself a remarkable tour de force. The vigorously direct paintings borrow a quality, force and power from the art of those whom she portrays. Now her words complement and extend the message of her brush. Anthropologists and sociologists will not ignore this work. But for others it will offer enjoyable reading and an insight into the minds of those whose culture was the last in thousands of years of pre-history in Western America. Here are glimpses into that vanished society still struggling for expression even when it was being engulfed by the overwhelming forces of the white man's world.
Her work of painting the Indians has been in itself a remarkable tour de force. The vigorously direct paintings borrow a quality, force and power from the art of those whom she portrays. Now her words complement and extend the message of her brush. Anthropologists and sociologists will not ignore this work. But for others it will offer enjoyable reading and an insight into the minds of those whose culture was the last in thousands of years of pre-history in Western America. Here are glimpses into that vanished society still struggling for expression even when it was being engulfed by the overwhelming forces of the white man's world.
LIB.00107
Vancouver, BC : Mitchell Press Limited
1966
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English
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