Exploring World Art

by Venbrux, Eric; Rosi, Pamela Sheffield; Welsch, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9781577664055
• ISBN10: 1577664051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-20
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Exploring World Art: An Introduction	1	(38)
Robert L. Welsch
Eric Venbrux
Pamela Sheffield Rosi
Section One Theoretical Orientations to the Subject of World Art	39	(44)
Gauguin, Negrin, and the Art of Anthropology: Reflections on the Construction of Art Worlds in a Costa Rican Port City	43	(26)
Russell Leigh Sharman
Anthropologies of Art: Three Approaches	69	(14)
Wilfried van Damme
Section Two Traditional and Modern Pathways for Contemporary African Art	83	(48)
Circuits of African Art/Paths of Wood: Exploring an Anthropological Trail	87	(24)
Paul Stoller
Tourism, Aesthetics, and Global Flows along the Swahili Coast	111	(20)
Sidney L. Kasfir
Section Three Creating New Traditions in Contemporary Art	131	(42)
``Frame that Rug!'': Narratives of Zapotec Textiles as Art and Ethnic Commodity in the Global Marketplace	135	(22)
Sharon W. Tiffany
Contending Indian Art-Worlds: Patta Chitra Paintings in Orissa	157	(16)
Helle Bundgaard
Section Four Engaging Tradition in Contemporary Aboriginal Art	173	(46)
The Unsettled Business of Tradition, Indigenous Being, and Acrylic Painting	177	(24)
Fred R. Myers
The Postcolonial Virtue of Aboriginal Art from Bathurst and Melville Islands	201	(18)
Eric Venbrux
Section Five Moving Away from Tradition in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Art	219	(66)
Gender, Location, and Tradition: A Comparison of Two Papua New Guinean Contemporary Artists	225	(20)
Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris
The Disputed Value of Contemporary Papua New Guinea Artists and Their Work	245	(26)
Pamela Sheffield Rosi
High Art as Tourist Art, Tourist Art as High Art: Comparing the New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford University and Sepik River Tourist Art	271	(14)
Eric K. Silverman
Section Six New Uses for Native American Art	285	(52)
``Do We Still Have No Word for Art?'': A Contemporary Mohawk Question	291	(26)
Morgan Perkins
Commodities of Authenticity: When Native People Consume Their Own ``Tourist Art''	317	(20)
Alexis Bunten
Section Seven Curatorial Authority	337	(62)
Living with the Ancestors in an International Contemporary Art World	343	(14)
Nick Stanley
Curatorial Authority and Postmodern Representations of African Art	357	(14)
Carol Hermer
Native American Art in a Global Context: Politicization as a Form of Aesthetic Response	371	(18)
Nancy Marie Mithlo
The Authenticity of Contemporary World Art: Afterword	389	(10)
Robert L. Welsch
Contributors	399