Cover Art: Only Tree (with Flight), 2019. Emily Arthur. Unique screen print on glazed BFK paper 40 x 50 inches.Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, MO.

Reviews

Antweiler, Katrin. Review of Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives and Museums, edited by Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo. International Affairs 99, no. 6 (2023): 2522-2523. doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad265
 
Elias, Ishmael. Review of Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives and Museums, edited by Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo. News from Native California 36, no. 4 (Summer 2023): 35. https://newsfromnativecalifornia.
com/store/issues/volume-36-issue-4-summer-2023
 
Greenwell-Scott, Sarah. Review of Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives and Museums, edited by Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 47, no. 1 (2024): 161-163. doi.org/10.17953/A3.20339
 
Minch-de Leon, Mark. Review of Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives and Museums, edited by Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo. Native American and Indigenous Studies 11, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 164-165. doi.org/10.1353/nai.2024.a924424

Visualizing Genocide

Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums

Yve Chavez (Editor), Nancy Marie Mithlo (Editor), Charlene Villaseñor Black (Foreword)

Selected by Hyperallergic as one of the "The Best Art Books of 2022"

Hardcover ($100.00), Paperback ($35.00), Ebook ($35.00) Buy

Visualizing Genocide examines how creative arts and memory institutions selectively commemorate or often outright ignore stark histories of colonialism. The essays confront outdated narratives and institutional methods by investigating contemporary artistic and scholarly interventions documenting settler colonialisms including land theft, incarceration, intergenerational trauma, and genocide. Interdisciplinary approaches, including oral histories, exhibition practices, artistic critiques, archival investigations, and public arts, are among the many decolonizing methods incorporated in contemporary curatorial practices.

Rather than dwelling simply in celebratory appraisals of Indigenous survival, this unprecedented volume tracks how massacres, disease, removals, abrogated treaties, religious intolerance, theft of land, and relocation are conceived by contemporary academics and artists. Contributors address indigeneity in the United States, Norway, Canada, Australia, and the Caribbean in scholarly essays, poems, and artist narratives. Missions, cemeteries, archives, exhibitions, photography, printmaking, painting, installations, performance, music, and museums are documented by fourteen authors from a variety of disciplines and illustrated with forty-three original artworks.

The authors offer honest critique, but in so doing they give hopeful and concrete strategies for the future. This powerful collection of voices employs Indigenous epistemologies and decolonial strategies, providing essential perspectives on art and visual culture.
 

Available through University of Arizona Press:

uapress.arizona.edu/book/visualizing-genocide