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At the forefront of the modern-day renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art — and one of its most enigmatic figures. Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian by Maria Tippett is the biography of the Haida master artist whose carvings, goldwork, and monumental sculptures transformed how the world sees Indigenous art.
Award-winning biographer and cultural historian Tippett traces Reid’s complex life: a man of Haida and European descent who spent his early years distant from his Indigenous roots, then devoted himself to rediscovering and mastering Haida traditions — from the Raven and the First Men to the great Spirit of Haida Gwaii. It is a story of identity, belonging, and art as reclamation.
Rich, nuanced, and deeply humane, this is essential reading for lovers of Native art, Canadian history, and the extraordinary lives of artists who remake themselves — a biography as compelling as its subject — the story of an artist who remade himself, and in doing so helped remake Indigenous art.
He was at the forefront of the modern-day renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art — and one of its most enigmatic figures. Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian by Maria Tippett is the biography of the Haida master artist whose carvings, goldwork, and monumental sculptures transformed how the world sees Indigenous art — and of the man behind the masterpieces.
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Award-winning biographer and cultural historian Tippett traces Reid’s complex life: a man of Haida and European descent who spent his early years distant from his Indigenous roots, then devoted himself to rediscovering and mastering Haida traditions — from the Raven and the First Men to the great Spirit of Haida Gwaii. It is a story of identity, belonging, and art as reclamation.
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Rich, nuanced, and deeply humane, this is essential reading for lovers of Native art, Canadian history, and the extraordinary lives of artists who remake themselves — a biography as compelling as its subject.
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