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Art and Exoticism
Paul van der Grijp
其他書名
An Anthropology of the Yearning for Authenticity
出版LIT Verlag Münster, 2009
主題Philosophy / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN38258166729783825816674
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XA--ij8MygUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book is about the yearning for authenticity via art and exoticism. Exoticism related to art cannot be reduced to primitivism alone and also encompasses a search in one's own unconsciousness among other things. The yearning for authenticity through exoticism is explored in a cultural anthropological perspective in the realms of Western philosophy (capita selecta) and colonial literature, currents of art, and in the appreciation of Western art conceptions in non-Western societies. An array of firsthand ethnographic illustrations of art production in Asian and Pacific societies demonstrates complementary processes in the non-Western world. A major hypothesis is that exoticism is closely related to, and often motivated by eroticism, a reason why exoticism should be considered as gendered. Case studies of the falsification of authentic art, the de-sacralization of sacred objects, and of the use of natural materials deriving from endangered species complete the analysis.