World Art: An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts

by Ben Burt

Book Overview

What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, 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.

Western art values have a pervasive influence upon non-Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847889433
• ISBN13: 9781847889430
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.5"