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The Arts
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What Is Art?
Art is the creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process.
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Views About Art
American View– Nonessential
Communicate– Feelings– Make statements– Share values
Marcel Duchamp, The Fountain, 1917.
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Art and Anthropology
Why study art?– Cultural insight
• Religion
• Social Structure
• Lifeways
• Subsistence
• Resources
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What Are the Functions of Art?
Myths offer basic explanations about the world and set cultural standards for right behavior.
Verbal arts transmit and preserve a culture’s customs and values.
Any art form may contribute to the cohesiveness or solidarity of that society.
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Social Functions of Art
Individuality
Social Identity
Social Status
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Art for Ritual
– Not to be seen by all• Tutankhamen
– Not to be saved for posterity• Navajo
• Johann Sebastian Bach
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Types of Art
Verbal Art– Folklore
Music– Verbal
– Nonverbal
Pictorial Arts– Painting
– Sculpture
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Verbal arts
Stories within a culture reflecting a history, gender relationships, proper or improper behavior, or religious beliefs.
Examples: Narratives, dramas, poetry, incantations, proverbs, compliments, and insults.
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Verbal Arts - Myth
Religious
A myth provides rationale for religious beliefs and practices.
Creation myths
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Verbal Arts – Legend
Stories told as true
Common elements– No known author
– Multiple versions
– Detail
– Insight to society
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Verbal Arts - Tale
Common elements– Secular
– Nonhistorical
– Entertainment
– May be moralistic
Motif– Story situation
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Verbal Arts – Poetry and Epics
Poetry - Allows for inappropriate subjects to be talked about
– Epics - Long oral narratives, sometimes in poetry or rhythmic prose, recounting the glorious events in the life of a real or legendary person.
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Music
Ethnomusicology – Study of music in a specific culture.
Anthropology studies how a culture defines music.
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Music
Verbal and nonverbalAbstract emotionDefine – Indigenous terms– Musical lingo
• Melody, rhythm, form
Components– Repetition– Tonality
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Functions of Music
Group identification
Self-identification
Political commentary
Social commentary
Social function– Entertainment
– Work
– Oral tradition
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Pictorial Arts
A type of symbolic expression that can be realistic or abstract.
Aesthetic approach - Looks at technique and form.
Narrative approach - Looks at what is depicted.
Interpretive approach – Looks at symbols and beliefs that are depicted in art, a knowledge of these must first be understood.
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Pictorial Art
Various mediums– Drawing, painting,
sketching, etc…
– Walls, rock, fibers, wood, animal hide, plants, clay, etc…
Symbolic expression
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Rock Art
Pictographs– Painting
Petroglyph– Pecking
Anthropomorphic
Animals
Abstract
Ritualistic
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Non-Representational
Meaning
Entoptic phenomena– Trance phase 1
– Nervous system
– Geometric patterns
Construal– Trance phase 2
– Brain makes sense of image
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Representational
Naturalistic
Western art
Abstracted– Style
– Technique
– Ability
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Art and Iconography
Symbols
Colors
Meaning to culture
Hard to decipher
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Sculpture
Many forms– Relief
– In the round
Media– Marble
– Mixed