ANTH 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Life Imitating Art, Yoruba Art, Kula Ring
18 Jan 2020
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Anderson lists four properties generally found in art: meaningfulness, is produced in a culturally appropriate style, has an impact on the emotions of those who view it, and requires some degree of special skill. Does also talk about the functions of art to some degree in this chapter, for instance one function of art is to convey meaning as well as the formalist approach to art. Formalist approach involves looking at form not meaning, basically the component parts of a painting rather than what it is trying to convey. Taks about yoruba art and their concepts of good and bad art, one concept is ephebism (the depiction of people in their prime, and is an important quality of good art to the. Looks at other aspects of art in west and central africa and how it"s a part of religious social and political life.
