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Remembering for the Future: Modern Pueblo Painting

Remembering for the Future: Modern Pueblo Painting

Scott, Sascha T.

Hardcover

Art HistoryRegional: Southwest

Publisher Price: $39.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 0295755458
ISBN13: 9780295755458
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 320
Language: English

Illuminates the lives and work of Pueblo artists who centered memory, resistance, and futurity

During the early twentieth century, Pueblo artists gained national attention with their paintings of ceremonial dances, animals, and everyday community life. Focusing on five first-generation Pueblo artists--Alfredo Montoya, Crescencio Martinez, Awa Tsireh, Tonita Peña, and Velino Shije Herrera--Sascha T. Scott traces how these painters developed a modern form of Pueblo painting. Working within and against the pressures of settler colonialism, tourism, anthropological scrutiny, and emerging art markets, these artists created works that celebrated living cultural traditions while supporting their families and communities.

Drawing on oral histories, archival research, and engagement with descendants and Pueblo community members, Scott centers the voices, families, and communities of the painters themselves, illuminating the social worlds in which these artists lived and worked. Their paintings embodied Pueblo values grounded in kinship, place, relationality, and responsibility while also navigating the economic and political realities of America.

By foregrounding Indigenous perspectives, Remembering for the Future reframes the history of modern Pueblo painting. These artists did more than create art for outside audiences--they used painting to sustain cultural knowledge, assert visual sovereignty, and carry Pueblo worldviews into the future.

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