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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BASSING, ALLEN,; BATTESTI, TERESA,; BECKER-DONNER, ETTA,; BORGATTI, JEAN M.,; CAUVEL, M. JANE,; COBELJ, STEFKA,; CORDWELL, JUSTINE M.,; CORDWELL, JUSTINE Μ.,; DELANGE-FRY, JACQUELINE,; DUNĂRE, NICOLAE,; ELLIOTT, JORGE,; EWERS, JOHN C.,; FERNANDEZ, JAMES W.,; FORD, AUSBRA,; JELINEK, J.,; JOSHI, O. P.,; KOSS, JOAN D.,; KWEI, HO LIEN,; MULLER, JON D.,; NEWCOMER, PETER JAY,; OREL, JAROSLAV,; PEACOCK, JAMES L.,; QUIRARTE, JACINTO,; RITZENTHALER, ROBERT,; ROZHDESTVENSKAYA, S. B.,; RUBIN, ARNOLD,; SIROTO, LEON,; SPIEGEL, HEDWIG,; STOLLER, MARIANNE L.,; VASIL\x27EVA, G. P.,; VOGEL, SUSAN M.,; YOUNG, CONRAD C. S.,; ŠTRUKELJ, PAVLA,
• HerausgeberIn: Cordwell, Justine M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (818 p.) :; 223 plates. 2 maps

Table of 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