ARTH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Expo 67
10 Dec 2018
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Sandra alfoldy suggests aboriginal craftspeople faced additional challenges to those experienced by euro canadians is the promotion and sale of their work. One of these challenges is that canadian curators failed to see the value in their work. Not that much of curator believes any collector will like it enough to pay for it as the way they will pay for fine art. Especially in contrast to the euro canadian arts, aboriginal art crafts are believe to be exotic but not professional. They are view their work as products from. They are treated more like souvenirs, with a narrower and traditional market, rather than something worth more time researching into or more money invested into. Not like the western art world where a developed system is put in place to cretic, research, and study them, the aboriginal people are viewed to use. Anonymous ethnological reference , that generalize over different tribal cultures and arts across the entire canada.
