ANTHR207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: First Nations, Orthopraxy, Wisconsin National Guard

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR207
• Professor: Brent Hammer

Document Summary

The creation is considered outside the material that it was created from. The concept of art for art"s sake , even if it was just a creative exercise, it had purpose. Play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation definition of art by. Can be imbued with meanings other than what it appears to be. Art includes: sculpture, drawing, painting, dance, music, theater, literature. People who produce art o: have agency, have the ability and use it o. Take a material and create something else from the material. Cultural shaped value judgements o: usually artists are seeking to receive from form of reaction from their work o. Involved the concept of art being considered good in some places and bad in others. It did what it was supposed to do , it created a cultural judgement o: we will respond to stimulus, as humans, we have agency as well, our likes and dislikes influence what.