Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Anthropologies of Art

Janet Catherine Berlo

4/5 ( ratings)

Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term art? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural definition of art, or are such definitions inevitably Western in their origins and concerns? What implications do the answers to these questions have for the collecting and display of Western and non-Western objects in art museums? Fourteen leading art historians and anthropologists discuss these and other questions.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Clark Art Institute

Release: July 08, 2005

ISBN: 0300103530

ISBN 13: 9780300103533

Anthropologies of Art

Janet Catherine Berlo

4/5 ( ratings)

Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term art? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural definition of art, or are such definitions inevitably Western in their origins and concerns? What implications do the answers to these questions have for the collecting and display of Western and non-Western objects in art museums? Fourteen leading art historians and anthropologists discuss these and other questions.

Language: English

Pages: 296

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Clark Art Institute

Release: July 08, 2005

ISBN: 0300103530

ISBN 13: 9780300103533

More books from Janet Catherine Berlo

Native North American Art

3.7/5 ( ratings)

American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Quilting Lessons: Notes from the Scrap Bag of a Writer and Quilter

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?