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Valentino, Erin. "Delivering Their Grandmothers: Contemporary Native American Women's Art," Department of the History of Art, Yale University, June 1994.
This dissertation treats the work of three Native American artists, Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead/Shoshone). The first chapter investigates the difficult circumstance for Native American women like Martinez who produce “traditional” arts. Chapter Two investigates Kay WalkingStick’s art, in specific the interpellation of “identity” in relation to work without explicitly “Native American” or even overtly political subject matter. The third centers on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Quincentenary Non-Celebration series. In this final chapter, I question the subtle interrelationships produced in such a work between power and language, between irony and appropriation, and between stereotype and authenticity.
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