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- From: hoosiers@carson.u.washington.edu (Mary Loveless)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.165532.12640@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:55:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec24.165532.12640
- References: <18844@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec23.192222.10975@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.023537.11215@panix.com>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <1992Dec24.023537.11215@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <1992Dec23.192222.10975@netcom.com> tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox) writes:
- >
- >> 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)
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- Mary Loveless hoosiers@carson.u.washington.edu
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