Isbn: 9780300033427 - the aesthetic experience: an anthropologist looks at the visual arts (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg. First edition. 4to. xi,272pp. Gray cloth with silver lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Inscribed by author on half-title page to Wolf Leslau and his wife: "To Lotte & Wolf, with affection, Jacques. 30. IV. 86." Leslau was a famous expert on Semitic languages as well as a former Professor at UCLA. "Analyzing the way we observe various examples of sculpture, architecture, painting, and crafted articles from many cultural traditions, noted anthropologist Jacques Maquet demonstrates that our specific experience is essential to what is socially recognized as art. Maquet's discussion of actual aesthetic perception draws an analogy with contemplation and compares the beholder's experience of art to certain forms of meditation.Using a rich array of illustrations from worldwide cultures of all periods, he illustrates the processes by which conceptual elements, natural environment, techniques of production, and social institutions have an impact on aesthetic forms." Illustrations are b/w photographic reproductions. Very minor creasing, scuffing and sunning on dj. Top corner of pages bumped slightly throughout. Minor age yellowing to outer edges of interior pages. Dust jacket in very good, book in very good to near fine condition. A tight copy from the last library of Professor Leslau. 12 page stapled booklet "The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 24, Number 4, Winter 1990," laid-in. Booklet near fine.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. XI, 272 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The Reality Anthropologists Build -- Art in Everyday Reality -- The Aesthetic Vision -- The Significance of Form -- Aesthetic Vision as Contemplative -- Aesthetic Experience in Other Cultures -- Art in Other Cultures -- Meanings in Aesthetic Objects -- Visual Forms as Signs -- Visual Forms as Symbols -- The Aesthetic Quality -- Preferences in Art -- Between Creators and Beholders -- Aesthetic Vision, a Selfless Experience -- The Cultural Component in Aesthetic Objects -- The Aesthetic Segment of a Culture -- Techniques of Production and Aesthetic Forms -- Societal Networks and Aesthetic Forms -- Aesthetic Forms and Other -- Ideational Configurations -- Conclusion: The Individual Nexus -- Appendix: Aesthetic Anthropology as Critical Knowledge. ISBN 0300033427 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. …