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The Visual Arts : Plastic and Graphic / ed. by Justine M. Cordwell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (818 p.) : 223 plates. 2 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027978202
  • 9783110810240
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.1/03 19
LOC classification:
  • N72.S6 V57 1979eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Proceedings of the Pre-Congress Conference on Art and Anthropology -- Proceedings of the Congress Session on the Visual and Performing Arts -- PART ONE Theory and Methodology -- Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics -- The Feeling of Architectonic Form: Residual and Emergent Qualities in Fang Cult and Culture -- Structural Studies of Art Styles -- An Inquiry into the Nature of Folktales and Folk Arts -- The Production of Aesthetic Values -- Notes on the Sociology of Art -- PART TWO Art in Its Cultural Setting -- Witchcraft Belief in the Explanation of Traditional African Iconography -- Grave Sculptures of the Dakakari -- Baule and Yoruba Art Criticism: A Comparison -- Tea House Paintings in Iran -- The Chalk Figures of Southern New Ireland and the Gazelle Peninsula and Their Relationship to Other South Pacific Areas -- A Painted Bark Shelter in Central Arnhem Land -- PART THREE Art and Change in Form, Content and Meaning: The Creative Innovator, Acculturation and Ethnohistory -- Artistic Expression and Creative Process in Caribbean Possession Cult Rituals -- Images of the White Man in Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Art -- From Folk Art to Fine Art: The Emergence of the Name Artist Among the Southwest Indians -- Taiwanese Shadow Puppets and the Development of Shadow Theater -- Latin American Folk Arts and Crafts and Their Sources -- Human Imponderables in the Study of African Art -- The Influence of African Art on African-American Art -- On Exhibiting African Art -- Folk Decorative and Applied Arts as a Source for the Study of Ethnogenesis: A Case Study of Turkmenians -- Art and History in West Africa: Two Case Studies -- PART FOUR The Role of Art in Archeology: The Reconstruction of Cultures -- Maya and Teotihuacán Traits in Classic Maya Vase Painting of the Ρetén -- The Relationship Between Painting and Scripts -- Ethnological Studies on Ancient Chinese Ritual Implements of Bronze and Jade -- Applied Art of the Ojibwa Indians (1830-1880) -- PART FIVE Anthropology and Art in Contemporary Society: Popular Art and Folk Art Survivals -- Anthropology and the Study of Art in Contemporary Western Society: The Pasadena Tournament of Roses -- Criteria for the Classification of Folk Ornaments -- Methods of Research and Documentation of Popular Art in Czechoslovakia -- Icons Painted on Glass in Yugoslavia -- Russian Folk Art Tradition in Modern Society: The Decor of the Present-Day Dwelling -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Proceedings of the Pre-Congress Conference on Art and Anthropology -- Proceedings of the Congress Session on the Visual and Performing Arts -- PART ONE Theory and Methodology -- Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics -- The Feeling of Architectonic Form: Residual and Emergent Qualities in Fang Cult and Culture -- Structural Studies of Art Styles -- An Inquiry into the Nature of Folktales and Folk Arts -- The Production of Aesthetic Values -- Notes on the Sociology of Art -- PART TWO Art in Its Cultural Setting -- Witchcraft Belief in the Explanation of Traditional African Iconography -- Grave Sculptures of the Dakakari -- Baule and Yoruba Art Criticism: A Comparison -- Tea House Paintings in Iran -- The Chalk Figures of Southern New Ireland and the Gazelle Peninsula and Their Relationship to Other South Pacific Areas -- A Painted Bark Shelter in Central Arnhem Land -- PART THREE Art and Change in Form, Content and Meaning: The Creative Innovator, Acculturation and Ethnohistory -- Artistic Expression and Creative Process in Caribbean Possession Cult Rituals -- Images of the White Man in Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Art -- From Folk Art to Fine Art: The Emergence of the Name Artist Among the Southwest Indians -- Taiwanese Shadow Puppets and the Development of Shadow Theater -- Latin American Folk Arts and Crafts and Their Sources -- Human Imponderables in the Study of African Art -- The Influence of African Art on African-American Art -- On Exhibiting African Art -- Folk Decorative and Applied Arts as a Source for the Study of Ethnogenesis: A Case Study of Turkmenians -- Art and History in West Africa: Two Case Studies -- PART FOUR The Role of Art in Archeology: The Reconstruction of Cultures -- Maya and Teotihuacán Traits in Classic Maya Vase Painting of the Ρetén -- The Relationship Between Painting and Scripts -- Ethnological Studies on Ancient Chinese Ritual Implements of Bronze and Jade -- Applied Art of the Ojibwa Indians (1830-1880) -- PART FIVE Anthropology and Art in Contemporary Society: Popular Art and Folk Art Survivals -- Anthropology and the Study of Art in Contemporary Western Society: The Pasadena Tournament of Roses -- Criteria for the Classification of Folk Ornaments -- Methods of Research and Documentation of Popular Art in Czechoslovakia -- Icons Painted on Glass in Yugoslavia -- Russian Folk Art Tradition in Modern Society: The Decor of the Present-Day Dwelling -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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