Boris Wiseman

Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging and original study of Claude L vi-Strauss's aesthetic thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521123013
• ISBN-10: 0521123011
• Artikelnr.: 27006225

Autorenporträt

Boris Wiseman is Lecturer in French at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ethnoaesthetics
1. The reconciliation
2. Art and the logic of sensible qualities
3. The work of art as a system of signs
4. Structuralism, symbolist poetics and abstract art
5. The anthropologist as art critic
6. Nature, culture, chance
7. From myth to music
8. Lévi-Strauss' mytho-poem
Conclusion: between concept and metaphor.