The Powers of Presence: Consciousness, Myth, and Affecting Presence

by Robert Plant Armstrong

Overview

Chiefly considering African and Upper Paleolithic work, Armstrong demonstrates that concepts of beauty, truth, and excellence are irrelevant in developing the aesthetic of a specific culture. By developing a unique aesthetic typology, he offers a reinterpretation of non-Western art that integrates human consciousness and its reification as art. More than eighty handsome photographs and drawings are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812278040
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	10/29/1981
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"The culmination of what will go down in history as one of the most distinguished trilogies in the history of aesthetics."

Yale University Robert Farris Thompson

"The culmination of what will go down in history as one of the most distinguished trilogies in the history of aesthetics."—Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University

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