{"product_id":"art-and-creativity-in-a-ross-bowden-9781793611383","title":"Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture, architecture and ritual this book examines in detail how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon. This includes how they understand its origins in the spirit world, how they judge quality in art and how they understand artistic creativity. The book contrasts Kwoma beliefs with the radically different approach to art found in the modern West. The modern Western concept of art first emerged not in the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment, or even later, as anthropologists and art historians often assume, but several centuries earlier in the Renaissance. The book gives an account of radical changes that took place culturally in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the way human intellectual creativity was understood, and how this gave rise to a new concept of art, one that remains unchanged in the modern West today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ross Bowden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1793611386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781793611383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ross Bowden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46293154889983,"sku":"9781793611383","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17974a20-c4dd-4242-aea0-4649a8979fee.jpg?v=1730212288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-and-creativity-in-a-ross-bowden-9781793611383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}