Article: African Art: Aesthetics And Meaning
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African Art: Aesthetics And Meaning
A QUESTION which should be asked before many others of the art of any age (but people are too often shy of putting prosaic questions to something so sublime as art) runs: what is the position of the artist in society and for people of what position does he work? In our age of supreme individualistic emancipation, in which the organic community is rather something for which the artist passionately longs than a reality, and in which the artist has more or less to depend on himself, the question is certainly not such an important one, though it is still often dismissed too casually.This is, therefore, particularly true of the so-called primitive peoples. The sociological way of thinking is comparatively rarely employed by the history of art, but it is no accident that ethnology is quite used ...
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