ART 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: False Face Society, Visual Arts By Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Indian Art
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Chapter 13: introduction to the indigenous arts of the americas. This chapter has three aims: to set the stage for a closer look at the arts of the aztec, inka, and. Northwest coast by introducing some basic conerns of native artists, to bring awareness to specfic issues of collecting and display, and to dispel commonly held assumptions about indian expressive culture. Generalizations about native people contribute to stereotypic notions that make no allowance for individuality or for any possibility of change over time. The term native american art covers an extremely broad category, encompassing all art expressions of the original inhabitants of the americas and their cognate descendants. It includes not only varied and completely disparate cultures but also spans great time sequences from today back to prehistoric times. In the past, native americans did not create art for its own sake.
