Images and Influences of Oriental Art: A Study in European Taste
The art teacher must often feel that the greater part of his task, especially in teaching beginning students or lecturing to a popular audience, consists in sweeping aside or overcoming preconceptions vaguely defined but deeply rooted in past experience. For the historian of Oriental art, this is pe...
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| Published in: | Art journal (New York. 1960) 1961-06, Vol.20 (4), p.203-210 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The art teacher must often feel that the greater part of his task, especially in teaching beginning students or lecturing to a popular audience, consists in sweeping aside or overcoming preconceptions vaguely defined but deeply rooted in past experience. For the historian of Oriental art, this is perhaps particularly true. We must persuade our students that the countries of the East have produced not one but many kinds of art, strange to our eyes and alien to our tradition, but no less significant and no more quaint than those of our own culture. We find ourselves lecturing-sometimes ineptly indeed-on Oriental history, Buddhist theology, and the curious structure of Japanese society, hoping that these will offer some background for intelligent understanding of the arts and perhaps also insight into the meaningful relation of art and life. |
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| ISSN: | 0004-3249 2325-5307 |