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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.023537.11215@panix.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 02:35:37 GMT
- References: <18844@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec23.192222.10975@netcom.com>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <1992Dec23.192222.10975@netcom.com> tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox) writes:
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- > In yuppie shops in Berkeley, you will find "primitive" artwork from
- >Central America, Armenia, and Asia, much of it straightforwardly part of the
- >religious practice of the people who made it (this includes paintings on
- >leather, cement statuary, tapestries, various icons, etc.).
-
- > The work is usually divorced entirely from its original context and
- >is in fact being offered for the esthetic pleasure of the urban dweller with
- >(often significant) disposable income.
-
- The same thing is true of most of the things you see in museums, at
- least the objects made before modern times. Does that bother you as
- well?
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Rem tene; verba sequentur." (Cato)
-