Structure and cognition in art

by: Washburn, D.K.

Price: 54,86 EURO

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Structure and cognition in art

Author:Dorothy Koster Washburn

Summary:The essays in this volume, which was originally published in 1983, present an innovative and unified approach to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of art and design. Together, they illustrate a variety of approaches to the discovery and systematic description of the underlying regularities in the organization of art forms.

Series:
New directions in archaeology

vi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Contents:
Towards a theory of structural style in art / Dorothy K. Washburn
The structure of Tarascan pottery painting / Margaret Ann Hardin
Recent Shapiro-Conibo ceramics and their implications for archaeological interpretation / Donald W. Lathrap
Where two dimensions meet : the Kuba of Zaire / Marie Jeanne Adams
Design structure and community organization in Quinua, Peru / Dean E. Arnold
When the map is the territory : art in Maori culture / F. Allan Hanson
From form to content in the structural study of aesthetic systems / James C. Faris
Temporal shifts in the structure of traditional Southwestern textile design / Kate P. Kent
Symmetry analysis of ceramic design : two tests of the method on Neolithic material from Greece and the Aegean / Dorothy K. Washburn

Structure and cognition in art

by: Washburn, D.K.

• ISBN-13: 9780521234719 / 978-0-521-23471-9
• ISBN-03: 0521234719 / 0-521-23471-9
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983

Price: 54,86 EURO

1 copy in stock