The origins of art
- Title
- The origins of art / by Gene Weltfish.
- Published by
- Indianapolis, : Bobbs-Merrill, [1953]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 300 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "An anthropologist's comprehensive study in text and pictures of the way in which art developed as a by-product of the industrial work first necessary to man's survival." Dust jacket.
- Subject
- Contents
- The birth of art in industry : the industrial origins of some common designs as an example -- Art and industry in the Amazon jungle : exploration and ways of life -- How a design emerges from a weaving process among the Bakairi Indians of the Amazon jungle -- How a people developed an elaborate art from a textile pattern : the Mimbres Indians of New Mexico (900-1150 A.D.) and the art they developed from the diagonal-inverted-symmetry pattern -- The origins of art on the North American continent -- Some popular misconceptions about art and its origins.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 282-285.