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Title Structure and cognition in art / edited by Dorothy K. Washburn
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983

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Description vi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Series New directions in archaeology
New directions in archaeology.
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of contributors; 1. Towards a theory of structural style in art Dorothy K. Washburn; 2. The structure of Tarascan pottery painting Margaret Ann Hardin; 3. Recent Shapiro-Conibo ceramics and their implications for archaeological interpretation Donald W. Lathrap; 4. Where two dimensions meet: the Kuba of Zaire Marie Jeanne Adams; 5. Design structure and community organization in Quinua, Peru Dean E. Arnold; 6. When the map is the territory: art in Maori culture F. Allan Hanson; 7. From form to content in the structural study of aesthetic systems James C. Faris; 8. Temporal shifts in the structure of traditional Southwestern textile design Kate P. Kent; 9. Symmetry analysis of ceramic design: two tests of the method on Neolithic material from Greece and the Aegean Dorothy K. Washburn; Index
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Art and society.
Art -- Sociological aspects.
Art, Primitive.
Author Washburn, Dorothy Koster.
LC no. 82014644
ISBN 0521234719