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The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progress / Shelly Errington.
Penn Museum Library N72.S6 E77 1998
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LIBRA N72.S6 E77 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Errington, Shelly, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and anthropology.
- Art.
- Art and society.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Anthropologist Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art, invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the 20th century, has died. Errington's dissection of discourses about progress and primitivism is a lively introduction to anthropological studies of art institutions and a dramatic contribution to the growing field of cultural studies. 106 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520210956
- 0520212118
- OCLC:
- 38930550
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