Introduction: Native to modernism -- Becoming Mary Sully. Genealogies : sound from everywhere -- Histories : to wake up and live -- Reading Mary Sully. Interpretation : toward an American Indian abstract -- Contextualization : the impossible subject -- Realizing Mary Sully. Psychology and culture : the nature of the margin -- Politics and the edges : reading Indian history -- Conclusion : Luta and the Double Woman.
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Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully's "work was exhibited only a handful of times during her life. In Becoming Mary Sully, Philip J. Deloria reclaims that work from obscurity, exploring her stunning portfolio through the lenses of modernism, industrial design, Dakota women's aesthetics, mental health, ethnography and anthropology, primitivism, and the American Indian politics of the 1930s. Working in a complex territory oscillating between representation, symbolism, and abstraction, Sully evoked multiple and simultaneous perspectives of time and space. With an intimate yet sweeping style, Deloria recovers in Sully's work a move toward an anti-colonial aesthetic that claimed a critical role for Indigenous women in American Indian futures - within and distinct from American modernity and modernism." -- Publisher.
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Becoming Mary Sully
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Toward an American Indian abstract
Sully, Mary,1896-1963-- Criticism and interpretation.
Art and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.