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Not Tupi: A Postcolonial Approach to Art Theory.
| Title: | Not Tupi: A Postcolonial Approach to Art Theory. |
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| Authors: | Gastaldo, Alice1 alicegastaldo@gmail.com |
| Source: | China Media Research. Jan2024, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p1-10. 10p. |
| Abstract: | This article aims to re-contextualize the term "Art" within its sociopolitical origins while acknowledging terms and definitions by other peoples that could also, in the late-capitalist west, be regarded as Art. Greek, ancient Chinese and Baniwa societies will here exemplify the ways in which a group's aesthetic and cultural produce can be understood by its own people, in addition to why or why not the word "Art" would be appropriately used to describe said produce. By means of a post-colonial approach, we will discuss the ways in which the contemporary "Art Worlds" mirror societies in their opulence and also in their suffocating of other groups, peripheric to them. In no way does this article suggest an outright definition of Art or even an end to the term itself. Instead, the goal is to start a conversation on why and how the term "Art," as well as its halo of adjacent meanings, has become a tool for cultural imperialism worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | *Chinese language, Art theory, Cultural imperialism, Modernism (Art) |
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| ISSN: | 1556889X |
| Database: | Communication & Mass Media Complete |
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