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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 06:22:50 GMT
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- In article <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.
-
- But how does that compare with museum shops selling reproductions of, say,
- ancient Egyptian artifacts?
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- There is a shop here in Santa Cruz that sells imported stuff, including a
- lot of Balinese carved wood animals. I was amused the other day to see
- they had a carving of a frog - riding on a skateboard! So the U.S.
- appropriates Balinese art appropriating Bart Simpson! (I'll have to buy
- that piece and send it to my anthropologist cousin.)
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