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"Award-winning biographer and cultural historian
Maria Tippett became intrigued by the enigmatic figure of Bill Reid, who often referrred to his
works as "artiflakes" yet continues to inspire new generations of Northwest Coast artists,
including Jim Hart and Robert Davidson. Tippett questions whether Reid's status as the architect
of contemporary Native art is accurate and fair, given that such artists as Mungo Martin had
been keeping the tradition alive since the beginning of the twentieth century. Most
controversially, she explores how Reid brought a sensibility formed through his white heritage
to the re-invention of Native art. By asking difficult questions about Reid's life and work and by analysing the works of other Native artists since the beginning of the 20th century, Tippett gives the reader a new and defining portrait of Bill Reid." |
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