| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
WORLD ART; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: WESTERN PERSPECTIVES; 1 The Origins of Art; New Worlds and Histories; Industrial and Intellectual Revolutions; British Museums; Politics and Commerce, Art and Craft; Further Reading; 2 Classical Art; The Obsession with Ancient Greece; Biblical Antiquity; Classical Art History; Classicism and Eurocentrism; Further Reading; 3 Oriental Art; Orientalism; Islamic Art: An Orientalist Stereotype?; Indian Art: Decorative and Denigrated; Chinese Art: Unrecognized Connoisseurship; Further Reading; 4 Primitive Art. |
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Savages and AnthropologistsEvolution, Diffusion, and Speculation; Identifying Cultures, Areas, and Styles; The Survival of Evolution and Diffusion; Further Reading; 5 Prehistoric Art; Discovering Antiquity; The Dawn of Art; Prehistoric Myths; The Politics of Prehistory; Further Reading; PART II: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES; 6 Form; Connoisseurs of Form; Form in Northwest Coast Art; Structure in Northwest Coast Art; Structure in Northwest Coast Culture; Further Reading; 7 Meaning; Reading Symbols; Explicit Meanings; Limits to Iconographic Analysis; Hidden Meanings; Further Reading. |
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8 PerformanceShowing Off; Parades; The Art of Impersonation; Performance by Proxy; Further Reading; 9 Archaeology; Archaeological Methodology in Peru; Moche Iconography; Moche Culture; Nasca Iconography; Further Reading; 10 The Work of Art; Art in Anthropology; Art in Cosmology; Art at Work; Art in Cosmic Agency; Further Reading; PART III: ARTISTIC GLOBALIZATION; 11 The Art World; Art History as Ideology; Reappraising Art History; Art as Collectibles; The Art Brokers; Further Reading; 12 The Exotic Primitive; Primitivism and Primitive Art; Adopting Primitive Art; The Primitive Art Market. |
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Exhibiting Exotic ArtefactsFurther Reading; 13 Marketing Exotic Art; Exporting Local Artefacts; Reconsidering Authenticity; Market Contributions to Local Culture; The Homogenization of Exotic Art; Further Reading; 14 Artistic Colonialism; Images of Appropriation; Finding a Place in the Art World; Art Goes Global; Global but Exclusive; Further Reading; 15 The Global and the Local; The Commodification of Art; Universal and National Museums; Alternative Museums; New Art Communities; Further Reading; Afterword; References; Index. |
| Summary |
What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was constructed in order to reconstruct it through an understanding of the wider world. Western art values have a pervasive influence upon non-Western cultures and upon Western attitudes to them. This innovative yet accessible new text explores the ways theories of art developed as Western knowledge of the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and anthropology.
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Art and anthropology. |
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Art and society.
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Art and society. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burt, Ben. World art. London ; New York : Berg, 2013 9781847889430 (DLC) 2012033114 (OCoLC)808245005 |
| ISBN |
9780857858122 (electronic book) |
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0857858122 (electronic book) |
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9781847889430 |
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1847889433 |
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9781847889447 |
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1847889441 |
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9781847889454 |
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184788945X |
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0857858122 |
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