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Title Imagery & creativity : ethnoaesthetics and art worlds in the Americas / edited by Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E. Whitten, Jr
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Introduction / Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E. Whitten, Jr. -- 2. Provenances and Pedigrees: The Western Appropriation of Non-Western Art / Sally Price -- 3. Power, Pathways, and Appropriations in Mesoamerican Art / Susan D. Gillespie -- 4. The Modern Gallery Exhibition as a Form of Western-Indigenous Discourse / J. Edson Way -- 5. Style and State in Ancient Peru / Helaine Silverman -- 6. Ethnic Arts of the Fourth World: The View from Canada / Nelson H. H. Graburn -- 7. Shaping Selves, Reshaping Lives: The Art and Experience of Helen Cordero / Barbara A. Babcock -- 8. Collective Fictions: Performance in Saramaka Folktales / Richard Price and Sally Price -- 9. Peter Minshall: The Good, the Bad, and the Old in Trinidad Carnival / John Nunley -- 10. Creativity and Continuity; Communication and Clay / Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E. Whitten, Jr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art, Primitive -- America.
Art, Primitive -- South America.
Ethnic art -- America.
Ethnic art -- South America.
Author Whitten, Dorothea S., 1930-2011.
Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
LC no. 92025853
ISBN 0816512477 (acid-free paper)
Other Titles Imagery and creativity
Imagery and creativity