AMST 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cape Dorset, Printmaking, Project Chariot
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Easier to sell art if you fall into this traditional paradigm of these art objects. Value of art vs. value of the artist great point. Can this be pushed to a more general culture and their art . Doesn"t mean it can"t become part of it. Thomas mcevilley art and otherness: crisis in cultural identity. Art as extension of who you are henry kudlok quote. Modern abstracted form just that terminology shows a cultural clash. Unique adaption to the techniques in inuit printmaking. Way of working is established: acknowledgments of ways of working and technology, how that cross- cultural method manifests itself. New visual appeal with the pictorial vs sculpture. Stone cut as a relief print, interesting innovation: resourceful use of local materials and knowledge of stone cutting: great insight as per traditional modes of making pushing through new technology. A knowledge of working with stone, and a comfort: stone cuts didn"t require a printing press, such as lithography.
