World art : an introduction to the art in artefacts /
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 concep...
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London ; New York :
Berg,
2013.
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Table of 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
