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Anthropologies of Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)
Anthropologies of Art - Clark Studies in the Visual Arts Author:Clark Conference (2003 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute), Mariet Westermann Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term “art”? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultur... more »al definition of art, or are such definitions inevitably Western in their origins and concerns? What implications do the answers to these questions have for the collecting and display of Western and non-Western objects in art museums? Fourteen leading art historians and anthropologists discuss these and other questions.« less