Selected Publications

Selected recent and forthcoming publications (in addition to essays and catalogue entries in major exhibition catalogues of Native American art published in France, Germany, and the United States).

  • In press: Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum (with Chelsea Herr).
  • 2023: Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas and Invented Traditions, Seattle: U. of Washington Press. 2023, 366 pp.
  • 2020: “Indigenous Textiles of North America: A Century of Exhibitions,” (co-author: Elizabeth Kalbflesich) in Jennifer Harris, ed., A Companion to Textile Culture, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 417-434.
  • 2020: “Beauty, Abundance, Generosity, and Performance: Sioux Aesthetics in Historical Context” in  Dana Claxton, ed. The Sioux Project, Regina, Saskatchewan: MacKenzie Art Gallery, pp. 34-47.
  • 2020: “Suturing My Soul: In Pursuit of the Broderie de Bayeux,” in J. Amos and L. Binkley, eds., Stitching the Self, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, pp. 155-170.
  • 2019: “The Energetic Line: Nineteenth Century Plains Artists, Leonard Baskin, and Fritz Scholder,” in Peripheral Vision(s): Leonard Baskin, Fritz Scholder, and Nineteenth-Century Ledger Drawings, Rhéanne Chartrand, ed. Hamilton, ON: McMaster Museum of Art, pp. 55-74.
  • 2015: Native North American Art. Oxford U. Press, (with Ruth Phillips). Revised and expanded second edition. 410 pp. (First edition published in French as Amerique du Nord: arts premiers, Paris: Albin Michel S.A., 2006) 2023. “Great Plains Art and Social Change: Courtship in the Old White Woman Ledger Drawings,” in Bruce Bernstein, et al., eds. Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection, NY: Delmonico Books and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
  • “Beyond the Mirror: Indigenous Ecologies and ‘New Materialisms’ in Contemporary Art,” Third Text 120: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, ed. T.J. Demos.  January 2013 (co-authored with Jessica Horton)
  • “Changing Hands, Shifting Paradigms: Materiality, Craft, and Identity in 21st Century Native Art,” American Indian Art Magazine  38(3), summer 2013, pp. 58-69 (co-authored with Alexander Brier Marr)
  • “Transgressing Borders: Miguel Covarrubias and the Development of Native American Art History,” in Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line, ed. Carolyn Kastner. Santa Fe: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Research Center, forthcoming 2014
  • “Navajo Sandpainting in the Age of Cross-cultural Replication,” in Theorizing Imitation in a Global Context, ed. Paul Duro. (forthcoming in special issue of journal Art History, 2014)
  • “Pueblo Indian Painting in 1932: Folding Narratives of Native Art into American Art History,” in The Blackwell Companion to American Art History, edited by J. Greenhill, J. Davis, & J. LaFountain, London: Blackwell, forthcoming 2014. (co-authored with Jessica Horton)
  • “A Gathering Place: Relationality in Contemporary Native Installation Art” in Native Art Now!  ed. V. Passalacqua and K. Morris, Indianapolis: The Eiteljorg Museum, forthcoming, 2014. (co-authored with Jessica Horton)
  • José Bedia: Transcultural Pilgrim, Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 2011 (exhibition catalogue, co-authored with Judith Bettelheim)
  • “The Body in the White Box: Corporeal Ethics and Museum Representation,” J. Marstine, ed., Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics:  Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum, NY: Routledge Press, 2011, pp. 353-378. (co-authored with Mara Gladstone)
  • “Navajo Cosmoscapes: Up, Down, Within,” Smithsonian Journal of American Art, Vol. 25 (1), 2011, pp. 10-13

Invited and Refereed Articles (selected)

  • 2023: “Great Plains Art and Social Change: Courtship in the Old White Woman Ledger Drawings,” in Bruce Bernstein, et al., eds. Native American Art from the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection, NY: Delmonico Books and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
  • 2020: Indigenous Textiles of North America: A Century of Exhibitions,” (co-author: Elizabeth Kalbflesich) in Jennifer Harris, ed., A Companion to Textile Culture, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 417-434.
  • 2020: Beauty, Abundance, Generosity, and Performance: Sioux Aesthetics in Historical Context” in Dana Claxton, ed. The Sioux Project, Regina, Saskatchewan: MacKenzie Art Gallery, pp. 34-47.
  • 2020: “From ‘Artifakes’ to ‘Surrogates’: The Replication of Northwest Coast Carving by Non-Natives,” (co-author: Aldona Jonaitis) in A. Jonaitis and K. Bunn-Marcuse, eds, Native Art of the Northwest Coast: New Approaches, Seattle, University of Washington Press, pp. 76-91.
  • 2020: Suturing My Soul: In Pursuit of the Broderie de Bayeux,” in J. Amos and L. Binkley, eds., Stitching the Self, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, pp. 155-170.
  • 2019: “The Energetic Line: Nineteenth Century Plains Artists, Leonard Baskin, and Fritz Scholder,” in Peripheral Vision(s): Leonard Baskin, Fritz Scholder, and Nineteenth-Century Ledger Drawings, Rhéanne Chartrand, ed. Hamilton, ON: McMaster Museum of Art, pp. 55-74.

A full PDF copy of Janet Berlos curriculum vitae is a vailable here.

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