Bennetta Jules-Rosette

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The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1984)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1984, 6 March 2013

The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1984)
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Part of Series
Topics in Contemporary Semiotics
Print Length
266 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
6 Mar 2013
ISBN-10
1475718292
ISBN-13
9781475718294

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Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer- cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty for money. The arts remain problematic for the social sciences. Sociology textbooks treat the arts as subordinate reflections of social forces, norms, or groups. An- thropology textbooks conventionally isolate the arts in a separate chapter, failing to integrate them with analyses of kinship, economics, politics, language, or biology. Textbooks reflect the guiding theories, which emphasize such factors as modes of production, patterns of thought, or biological and normative con- straints, but their authors have not adequately formulated the aesthetic dimen- sion. One may compare the theoretical status of the arts to that of religion. After the contributions by Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, the sociology of religion is well established, but where is a Durkheim or Weber for the sociology of art? What is true of the social sciences in general holds for understanding of modernization in the Third World. These processes and those places are analyzed economically, politically, and socially, but the aesthetic dimension is treated in isolation, if at all, and is poorly grasped in relation to the other forces.

Product Details

Author:
Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1984
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
6 March 2013
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm
Genre:
African
ISBN-10:
1475718292
ISBN-13:
9781475718294
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
266
Publisher:
Weight:
385.55 gm

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