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The aesthetic experience : an anthropologist looks at the visual arts / Jacques Maquet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maquet, Jacques Jérôme Pierre, 1919-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 272 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- Is art, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Is art itself universal and recognizable across cultural boundaries? In this provocative, copiously illustrated book, a noted anthropologist deals with such questions by focusing on the way we observe various examples of sculpture, architecture, painting, and crafted articles from many cultural traditions.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 256-260.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0300033427
- OCLC:
- 11971141
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