| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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The Institute of American Indian Arts: Modernism and U. S. Indian Policy. By Joy L. Gritton. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xv + 199 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

From the tangled threads of international affairs, politics, economics, art, education, and individual agendas, Joy L. Gritton weaves a fabric delineating the twentieth-century historical and ideological origins and underpinnings of The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Her purpose is to provide an analysis to be used as a point of departure for developing theoretical and practical approaches to arts education for organizations that are attempting to meet the needs of a multicultural society. 1

Opening in 1962, the IAIA has been described as a catalyst in the development of Native American art, an embodiment of revised U. S. Indian policy, and a paradigm for minority arts education. Gritton argues that in its inception, support, and functioning, the institute represented the convergence of socioeconomic, artistic, and political forces inimicable to Native American interests, art, and education. . . .

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