| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960. By Bill Anthes. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xxx + 235 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95, paper.)

In Native Moderns, Bill Anthes explores how, during the mid-twentieth century, American Indian painters transitioned from "traditional" modes of artistic expression to their own "modern" styles. At the core of the book is the argument that Indian artists "forged a uniquely Native American modernist art" that was a "consciously constructed response" to the "processes of societal modernization that swept Indian country" (p. xviii). Furthermore, Anthes argues that the idea of American Indians as Primitivist subjects influenced the broader modernist art movement by offering clues for a new universalist conception of humanity that transcended Western civilization. Thus, modern forces influenced Indian art, and Indians influenced modern art.

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