During The Groundbreaking Charles Edenshaw Exhibition At The Vancouver Art Gallery In 2013, Poet Colin Browne Found Himself Returning Often To Study Three Large Argillite Platters Carved By The Haida Master In The Late 1800s. Produced Several Years Apart, Each Depicts An Identical Scene At The Same Moment: Two Frightened Figures In A Canoe Appear To Be On A Mission. One Is The Raven, In Supernatural Form, Brandishing A Spear; The Other, In The Stern, Is A Human-like Figure With A Circular Head. On One Platter He Holds A Paddle; On The Other, Two His Arms Are Raised In A State Of Panic. He Is The Helmsman, Known As Fungus, Or Fungus Man, Or Biscuit Man. The Raven And Fungus Man Appear Early On In The Haida Epic Poem 'raven Travelling,' Not Long After The Raven Releases Human Men From A Clamshell. Their Mission Is To Enable Men And Women To Go Forth And Multiply. The Three Platters, Celebrated Not Only For Their Craftsmanship But Also For Their Insight Into The Psyche, Are Rarely Brought Together In One Place, And The Fact That Edenshaw Returned, With A Sense Of Humour, To This Primal Scene, Suggests That The Theme Was As Important To Him As It Was To His Contemporary, Sigmund Freud. Browne Launches His Unexpected Journey Of Discovery With A Simple Question: 'who Was Fungus, Or Fungus Man, And Why Did He Become The One Responsible For The Miracle Of Human Procreation?' Every Good Story Is An Origin Story--and A Mystery Story--and In Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters Of Charles Edenshaw, Browne Ranges Through The Fields Of Art History, Literature, Ethnology, And Myth To Discover A Parallel History Of Modernism Within One Of The World's Most Subtle And Sophisticated Artistic And Literary Cultures.-- For The Perpetuation Of The World -- Raven -- Da.a Xiigang -- Trade -- Three Argillite Platters -- Below The Canoe -- The Bracket-fungus Steersman -- Raven Travelling/xuuya Kaagang.ngas -- Why Fungus Man? -- The Polypores -- A Walk In The Forest -- Clamshell Or Cockleshell? -- In Time -- Coda. Colin Browne. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 153-178).
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Publisher : Talonbooks
Author : Browne, Colin
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2017-01-02
Number Of Pages : 178
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1772010391
ISBN-13 : 9781772010398
Item weight : 0.49 lb
Dimensions : 0.63 in x 5.04 in x 8.5 in
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