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ART, ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE MODES OF RE- PRESENTATION: MUSEUMS AND CONTEMPORARY NON-WESTERN ART Download Free Author: H. Leyton, B. Damen, Leyten, Damen, H. Leyten Number of Pages: 80 pages Published Date: 01 Dec 1993 Publisher: KIT Publishers Publication Country: Amsterdam, Netherlands Language: English ISBN: 9789068322453 Download Link: CLICK HERE

Art, Anthropology And The Modes Of Re-presentation: Museums And Contemporary Non-western Art Read Online Sign up to be notified when new dates become available. If you have any questions about this course please contact shortcourses gold. For information on our upcoming short courses please sign up to our mailing list. Former curator at the British Museum, he is at present advisor and consultant for auction houses e. Bonhams , academic institutions e. Research-active, Max is currently working on two new books on Native Americans in art with Sioux Dakota art historian and co-author Dr. Stephanie Pratt. The historically distinct disciplines of art history and anthropology have developed their theories and methods in separate geographical areas: Europe and countries under the European influence, and the rest of the world respectively. Although anthropology brought to the attention of the academic community examples from different cultures, art history has been slow in embracing the study of arts from most parts of the world. Morphy and M. Westermann Ed. Forge Ed. Cultures have been in contact for millennia and objects exchanged hands since antiquity through trade, curiosity, and anthropological research. A short history of the birth and differentiation of various types of museums will contextualise the ways in which European discourses on non-Western arts have been constructed on ideas of cultural difference ethnographic arts , primitivism prehistoric and tribal arts , exoticism tourist arts , and orientalism decorative and applied arts from eastern countries to analyse how even today, art beyond the West is perceived and valued according to these standards. Between week 2 and week 3 students will be asked to visit a museum in anticipation of a class discussion in week 3 e. How have ideas of primitivism, orientalism, exoticism and cultural difference impacted European understandings of non-Western artefacts? Sloan Ed. Barlow Ed. Often these objects are stored and displayed in museums specifically build for them in the 19th c. Items gathered in ethnographic collections stand in stark contrast with art pieces that epitomise national heritages. With this lecture we aim at highlighting the subtle differences there are between folk traditions, cultural heritage, ethnographic objects, national collections, and high arts. These classifications will be juxtaposed to make sense of the contextual perceptions associated with diverse cultural productions from different parts of the world. We will specifically focus on the art-artefact nexus that still polarises popular perceptions and representations circulating in various places. Here we address how at the beginning anthropology began to study art produced in areas outside Europe, progressively moving away from formal analyses of objects and diffusion of ideas Boas to study their function from the vantage point of social structure Sieber. Here we examine the limitations and advantages of using diffusionist and structural-functionalist ideas in the study of art developed in early anthropology. What are the limitations and benefits of using a diffusionist framework for an understanding of artistic changes? Developments within anthropology shifted the attention from the function of objects to their inherent communicative potential. Art began to be interpreted as a symbolic language Levi