book review on Art as Culture
Posted on July 11, 2008
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Art as culture : an introduction to the anthropology of art by Evelyn Payne Hatcher
The book gives an overview of the cross-cultural study of art from an anthropological perspective by tackling the diversity of human nature. Exploring the ins and outs of ideas about art and its relationship to other things that people do, the author presents the impact of the vast changes in the world on art in all societies while giving focus on the rise of folk, tourist, and export art. According to Hatcher, art can be best studied by studying the where, how, who, why, what, when of art on the local level, then moving to understand the significance of patterns or systems that have yielded insights in the past. In this book, her cultural studies of native peoples in North America, Oceania, and Africa show how art is a locally specific and extremely significant feature of culture.
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