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Author Layton, Robert, 1944-

Title The anthropology of art / Robert Layton
Edition Second edition
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description xiii, 258 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of figures -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The art of other cultures -- 2. Art and social life -- 3. Art and visual communication -- 4. Style -- 5. Creativity of the artist -- References -- Index
Summary Place of aesthetics, imagery and aptness; relations between art and social life; relationships between cultural values, imagery, style and communication; place of creativity and the individual artist; Australian examples from Kimberleys and Arnhem Land
Analysis Visual arts Aesthetics
Notes Includes index; First published by Granada, 1981
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 240-249
Includes index
Subject Art and anthropology.
Art and society.
LC no. 90002640
ISBN 0521363675
0521368944 (paperback)