Art in society : studies in style, culture, and aesthetics /

Art in society : studies in style, culture, and aesthetics / edited by Michael Greenhalgh and Vincent Megaw.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Greenhalgh, Michael, Megaw, J. V. S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1978.
Subjects:
Art and society.
Art > Psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Aesthetics, anthropology and style: some programmatic remarks / Richard Wollheim
  • Design and meaning in preliterate art / Michael Cardew
  • Art and visual communication / Robert Layton
  • What is art for anthropologists? / P.J.C. Dark
  • "I like things to look more different than that stuff did": an experiment in cross-cultural art appreciation / Nelson H.H. Graburn
  • Touch and the real: contemporary Inuit aesthetics
  • theory, usage and relevance / George Swinton
  • European interest in the non-European: the sixteenth century and pre-Columbian art and architecture / Michael Greenhalgh
  • African art and Paris studios 1905-20 / J.B. Donne
  • The modern artist in modern society / Josef Herman
  • A mathematical analysis of the styles of the Persepolis reliefs Michael C. Roaf
  • Pottery decoration as an indicator of social relationships: a prehistoric Cypriot example / David Frankel
  • The formal analysis of visual systems as exemplified by a study of Abelam (Papua New Guinea) paintings / Sheila M. Korn.
  • Weaving in its social context among the Atayal of Taiwan / Martin A. Nettleship
  • Talania and Nake, master carver and apprentice: two woodcarvers from the Kilenge (Western New Britain) / Adrian A. Gerbrands
  • The art of Benin through the eyes of the artist, the art historian, the ethnographer and the archaeologist / Thurstan Shaw
  • Carving a social message: the Melanggans of Tabar (Papua New Guinea) / G.N. Wilkinson
  • Cognitive aspects of Northwest Coast art / Joan M. Vastokas
  • Melody, drone and decoration: underlying structures and surface manifestations in Tongan art and society / Adrienne L. Kaeppler
  • Obstacles to the study of Maori carving: the collector, the connoisseur and the faker / Peter Gathercole
  • Drug-induced optical sensations and their relationship to applied art among some Colombian Indians / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff
  • Aspects of Asante images / Malcolm D. McLeod
  • The productive basis of aesthetic traditions: some African examples / James C. Faris.

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