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American Indian Art by Norman Feder. 445 pages. Abrams. $35. A connoisseur's collection of Indian painting, weaving, carving and mask designs put together by the Denver Museum director responsible for the fine Indian art show now at Manhattan's Whitney Museum (TIME. Dec. 6). Amid a plethora of the overupholstered and overpriced, this book is a notable example of wampum well spent...
...collected kachina dolls, and Jackson Pollock, it is said, was interested in Navajo sand paintings; but as a rule, whether it was treated as knickknacks or, more decently, as ethnographical evidence, Indian art has languished on the fringes of white perception. The Whitney, by inviting its guest curator Norman Feder (who is in charge of the Indian collection at the Denver Art Museum) to assemble some 300 works and present them as art. has done an exemplary public service. The items in the show have been chosen with meticulous connoisseurship. Their installation, by Designer George Hoehne, is a model...
...contention," Feder declares, "is that anyone can appreciate Indian art, regardless of his knowledge, background or previous experience." Perhaps-but in a strictly limited way. Few people could encounter the carved ceremonial masks of the Northwest Coast Indians, the Tlingit. Kwakiutl or Tsimshian, with their exquisite shell-inlay work and flowing, knife-blade forms that so inexplicably resemble archaic Chinese bronze decoration, without feeling some instant response to the vitality of their stylistic language. Through their art runs a supreme capacity to make sensation concrete: what European artist, for instance, could develop a more concise epigram of a grizzly bear...
...third quarter, however, consumer spending showed the smallest rise in almost two years, and the worried consumer was socking an exceptionally high 7.6% of his take-home pay into savings. Consumers' incomes are not growing especially rapidly. Personal income, not counting the distorting effect of retroactive feder al pay increases, advanced in September only about $3.5 billion, an even smaller amount than the modest monthly average of $4 billion...
...Feder and Laszlo Pasztor '73, president of the Harvard YAF, expressed support for a massive petition campaign to save the two hijackers from execution in Russia...