ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marcel Duchamp, Sandpainting, Body Painting
28 Sep 2017
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Walpole first nations cultural references to learn. Art and conventions: canonical art in france made reputable paintings. Breaking convention: marcel duchamp: protest art, mind engaging art, charles ives: music considered unplayable (reject styles considered standard) The place of style: encoding of meaning, ravicz: around ritual context, most important style is the human body, art is about special skill. Aesthetics: producing culture, how properties of products made, way to communicate through senses, didero(based on choices and style, clash of aesthetic judgments: taste enforcement by society. Art and media: northwest coast: relationship bw rank and art, serves to perform messages to society, mass production vs craftsmanship. Art and commercialization: changing forms and expectation, changing materials, commercial sandpainting, commercial painting. What is ritual: repetitive social practice of sequence of activities (something special from everyday life, connected to ideas encoded in myth, accepted from an authority.
