""The Indian Craze" is a lucid and compelling account of the entangled histories of Native and European-American aesthetic and intersubjective exchange in the formative years of American modernism. Told with deep historical understanding, it restores subjecthood and agency to Native artists too often deprived of both by the persistence of primitivizing attitudes. Such studies as Elizabeth Hutchinson's offer a very different, insistently hybrid history of modernism, sensitive to the ethical ambiguities that reside in virtually every instance of uneven encounter between colonizer and colonized. This is a long-awaited contribution to how we understand the complex cultural negotiations attendant on the growing aesthetic value accorded to Native arts around the turn-of-the-century."--Angela Miller, lead author of "American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity"

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Unpacking the Indian Corner 11
2. The White Man's Indian Art: Teaching Aesthetics at the Indian Schools 51
3. Playing Indian: Native American Art and Modern Aesthetics 91
4. The Indians in Käsebier's Studio 131
5. Angel DeCora's Cultural Politics 171
Epilogue 221
Notes 235
Selected Bibliography 263
Index 267

Elizabeth Hutchinson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University.