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

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• 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