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Titolo: |
The anthropology of art [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford : , : Blackwell Pub., , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (576 p.) |
Disciplina: | 709/.01/1 |
Soggetto topico: | Art and anthropology |
Art and society | |
Yolngu Matha language N230 | |
Altri autori: |
MorphyHoward
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The Anthropology of Art; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice; Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline; 1 Primitive Art; 2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America; 3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art; 4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art; 5 Tikopia Art and Society; 6 The Abelam Artist; Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts; 7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction; 8 Defective Affinities: ''Primitivism'' in 20th Century Art |
9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places; 11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art; 12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections; 13 Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps; Part III Aesthetics across Cultures; 14 Yoruba Artistic Criticism; 15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts; 16 ''Marvels of Everyday Vision'': The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes; 17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu | |
Part IV Form, Style, and Meaning18 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems; 19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual; 20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans' Masks; 21 All Things Made; 22 Modernity and the ''Graphicalization'' of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective; Part V Marketing Culture; 23 Arts of the Fourth World; 24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ''Strictly Commercial'' | |
25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art MarketPart VI Contemporary Artists; 26 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art; 27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings; 28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist's Approach; 29 Kinds of Knowing; 30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers' appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important |
Titolo autorizzato: | The anthropology of art ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-21433-7 |
9786611214333 | |
1-4051-5532-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784880303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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