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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