| Description |
xvii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Aesthetics, anthropology and style: some programmatic remarks / Richard Wollheim -- Design and meaning in preliterate art / Michael Cardew -- Art and visual communication / Robert Layton -- What is art for anthropologists? / P.J.C. Dark -- "I like things to look more different than that stuff did": an experiment in cross-cultural art appreciation / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- Touch and the real: contemporary Inuit aesthetics - theory, usage and relevance / George Swinton -- European interest in the non-European: the sixteenth century and pre-Columbian art and architecture / Michael Greenhalgh -- African art and Paris studios 1905-20 / J.B. Donne -- The modern artist in modern society / Josef Herman -- A mathematical analysis of the styles of the Persepolis reliefs Michael C. Roaf -- Pottery decoration as an indicator of social relationships: a prehistoric Cypriot example / David Frankel -- The formal analysis of visual systems as exemplified by a study of Abelam (Papua New Guinea) paintings / Sheila M. Korn |
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Weaving in its social context among the Atayal of Taiwan / Martin A. Nettleship -- Talania and Nake, master carver and apprentice: two woodcarvers from the Kilenge (Western New Britain) / Adrian A. Gerbrands -- The art of Benin through the eyes of the artist, the art historian, the ethnographer and the archaeologist / Thurstan Shaw -- Carving a social message: the Melanggans of Tabar (Papua New Guinea) / G.N. Wilkinson -- Cognitive aspects of Northwest Coast art / Joan M. Vastokas -- Melody, drone and decoration: underlying structures nad surface manifestations in Tongan art and society / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Obstacles to the study of Maori carving: the collector, the connoisseur and the faker / Peter Gathercole -- Drug-induced optical sensations and their relationship to applied art among some Colombian Indians / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff -- Aspects of Asante images / Malcolm D. McLeod -- The productive basis of aesthetic traditions: some African examples / James C. Faris. |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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Art and society. |
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Art -- Psychology.
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Art -- Psychology. |
| Added Author |
Greenhalgh, Michael.
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Megaw, J. V. S.
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| ISBN |
0312052677 |
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9780312052676 |
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