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Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art

Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art

Hatcher, Evelyn

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0897896289
ISBN13: 9780897896283
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Mar 30 1999
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
The concept of art as being purely for aesthetic contemplation, that is typical of industrial civilization, is not a very useful one for cross-cultural studies. The majority of the art forms that we see in museums and art books that have come from Native America or Africa or Oceania, are objects that were once part of a larger artistic whole from which they have been extracted. We need to try to piece together and imagine the artistic context as well as the cultural one if we are to attain a deeper sense of the import than the piece available to use provides. Even then, it is almost impossible to define the artistic whole. Perhaps we would do better to regard these pieces as fragments from the lifestyle of a people.

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