Indians in Color by Norman K Denzin

Author:Norman K Denzin [Denzin, Norman K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781629582795
Google: eydjuwEACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015-10-15T03:24:49+00:00

Act Four, Scene Two

A New Chapter?

Speaker One: Ms. Coyote

We can't move on until we remember and honor the legendary Fritz Scholder24 (Luiseno, 1937-2005; see Sims, 2008a and b), R. C. Gorman25 (Navajo, 1931-2005; see Parks, 1983), as well as Woody Crumbo26 (Citizen Potawatomi, 1912-1989), and non-Native artist Jim Wagner (1940–). They are called the Chapter Three painters, the third chapter after the Taos Founders (TSA, 1915-1927), and the Taos Moderns (1920-1960). www.harwoodmuseum.org/news/view/4527

Speaker Two: Narrator

A little history is in order. The so-called Third Chapter painters were agents of change in a larger social movement. During the 1960s, as J. J. Brody argues (1971, p. 204), things changed dramatically in the history of modern secular Indian painting. Several factors came together to produce radically different representations of Indians by Native American artists. These representations built on and repudiated prior traditions, from the 19th-century paintings of noble savages, by Catlin and others, to the romanticized Taos Indian painted by the TSA school, to the paintings of Indians by Indians taught in the Santa Fe School by Dorothy Dunn, to the landscape paintings of the Forgotten Taos Three.

The factors that produced these changes included: the emergence of angry young Indians as a result of the civil rights movements, the emergence of the Institute of American Indian Arts as a new institution designed to train and support a new generation of Indian artists, and a commitment to an aesthetic that said art could be both a tool of self-expression and an agent for social change. Together these factors set the conditions for the emergence of the so-called Third Chapter painters. They became agents of the very change their paintings embodied.

Speaker Two: Seventh Generation Performers

All right already. Enough of this fancy interpretive talk.

Before you extoll the Chapter Three painters, remember that in this play we are honoring three talented painters who Ȫre overlooked by the establishment. The Chapter Three painters stand on their shoulders, so to speak.

Speaker One Ms. Coyote:

History, history, whose history?

Curtain.

Drumming music.

House lights up.

As in the last play, the San Geronimo Clowns enter stage left in front of the curtain, join hands, and bow to the audience. They turn and take the steps leading off the stage, laughing loudly as they leave the theater.

Applause.

The theatre goes dark.

THE END

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