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The Powers of Presence : Consciousness, Myth, and Affecting Presence / Robert Plant Armstrong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1981]Copyright date: ©1982Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812278040
  • 9781512800074
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PLATES, FIGURES (Plates follow page 130) -- Introduction -- 1. The Powers of Invocation, the Powers of Virtuosity -- 2. The Powers of the Analogic -- 3. The Powers of the Mythologemic -- 4. The Powers of the Mythoform I -- 5. The Powers of the Mythoform II -- 6. The Powers of Celebration -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Chiefly considering African and Upper Paleolithic work, Armstrong demonstrates that concepts of beauty, truth, and excellence are irrelevant in developing the aesthetic of a specific culture. By developing a unique aesthetic typology, he offers a reinterpretation of non-Western art that integrates human consciousness and its reification as art. More than eighty handsome photographs and drawings are included.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512800074

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PLATES, FIGURES (Plates follow page 130) -- Introduction -- 1. The Powers of Invocation, the Powers of Virtuosity -- 2. The Powers of the Analogic -- 3. The Powers of the Mythologemic -- 4. The Powers of the Mythoform I -- 5. The Powers of the Mythoform II -- 6. The Powers of Celebration -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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Chiefly considering African and Upper Paleolithic work, Armstrong demonstrates that concepts of beauty, truth, and excellence are irrelevant in developing the aesthetic of a specific culture. By developing a unique aesthetic typology, he offers a reinterpretation of non-Western art that integrates human consciousness and its reification as art. More than eighty handsome photographs and drawings are included.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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