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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (818 p.) :; 223 plates. 2 maps
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Other title: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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110810240
9783110637922
DOI:10.1515/9783110810240
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Justine M. Cordwell.