World art: an introduction to the art in artefacts
Auteur :
Burt, Ben
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781847889447
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2013
Dimensions :
24,4 x 17,2 cm
Poids :
660 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was constructed in order to reconstruct it through an understanding of the wider world.