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World Art - An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts (Hardcover, New)
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World Art - An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts (Hardcover, New)
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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 world expanded through exploration and trade,
conquest, colonisation and research into other cultures, present
and past. It considers the issues arising from the historical
relationships which brought diverse artistic traditions together
under the influence of Western art values, looking at how art has
been used by colonisers and colonised in the causes of collecting
and commerce, cultural hegemony and autonomous identities.World Art
questions conventional Western assumptions of art from an
anthropological perspective which allows comparison between
cultures. It treats art as a property of artefacts rather than a
category of objects, reclaiming the idea of 'world art' from the
'art world'. This book is essential reading for all students on
anthropology of art courses as well as students of museum studies
and art history, based on a wide range of case studies and
supported by learning features such as annotated further reading
and chapter opening summaries.
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