Women Artists of the Ancient Southwest by Billy Schencknew

Friend of the gallery Billy Schenck just published an important new book on the pre-colonial ceramic art tradition in the Southwest. Drawing on his own definitive collection of ancient ceramics, Schenck's innovative text breaks with academic tradition by presenting Ancestral Puebloan pottery as the work of individual artists whose contributions can and should be acknowledged. Schenck's insistance on this point is laudable as it places Native American art on equal footing with other creative traditions. Signed by the author. A valuable reference which includes hundreds of high quality photos of the main pre-historic pottery typologies from Mimbres to Sikyatki.