Aesthetics of Primitive Art

AvH. Gene Blocker

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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In this work, Blocker extends the philosophy of art to traditional African, Pre-Columbian Meso-American, and other works of "primitive art". Contents: Is Primitive Art Primitive? Is Primitive Art Art? Aesthetic Consciousness in Primitive Art; Critical Assessment of Primitive Art.

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Utgivningsdatum:1993-11-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780819193162

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H. Gene Blocker is Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

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...Blocker's book is a brave and welcome departure. He attempts to give the broadest possible view of the art of small-scale societies and how we might come to understand and enjoy it...[he] has written what is to date the finest purely philosophical investigation of ethnographic arts so far to apear in print... -- Denis Dutton, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM ...Blocker's book is a brave and welcome departure. He attempts to give the broadest possible view of the art of small-scale societies and how we might come to understand and enjoy it...[he] has written what is to date the finest purely philosophical investigation of ethnographic arts so far to apear in print... -- Denis Dutton, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM