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The Aesthetic Experience: an Anthropologist Looks at the Visual Arts by Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet; Jaques P. Maquet is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Aesthetic Experience: an Anthropologist Looks at the Visual Arts about?
Is art, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? Is art itself universal and recognizable across cultural boundaries? In this provocative, copiously illustrated book, a noted anthropologist deals with such questions by focusing on the way we observe various examples of sculpture, architecture, painting, and crafted articles from many cultural traditions.
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It is typically read by collectors seeking rare, out-of-print or specialist editions.
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- Author
- Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet; Jaques P. Maquet
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300041347
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Sociology, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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