ART HIST 242 Midterm: Keywords- Exam 1.docx
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Cultural retentions niger congo/west & central africa: material form (basket making, shot gun house, iron sculpture, ephemeral form (polyrhythm, language, dance, belief(opinion evil travels in straight lines, ancestral ect. ) honor, ect. , ritual (burial practices, custom/religious, material/economic life (cattle breeding, agricultural production: rice cultivation, ect, extreme respect for elders; bowing; kneeling, games, names, dance, gestures. Louisiana elements (retention, inventiveness: basketry senegal and gambia, kinship systems extended family, graveyard decoration accumulation; reflective objects as shells, porcelain, glass, bottles, ect, cooperative societies fraternal and benevolent societies, acculturation. Art: aethetic object, instrinsic values, to be looked at/eye, special site museum, judged by beauty , imagination, originality/product of artist (creative individual genius) Craft: utilitarian object, functional values, manipulated/hand, commonplace sites, judged for its purpose, copied repeatedly, product of skilled artisan (skilled manual labor industry, harriet powers. Frazier: sociologist, slaver in usa stripped culture and social structure, african american culture developed independently of african influence, repression, disruption, acculturation.
