"Popular Art" and the Javanese Tradition
1990; Volume: 50; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3351231
ISSN2164-8654
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural and Artistic Studies
ResumoThere is a long tradition in the West of distinguishing between high and low art. All of us who have been formed in that tradition first absorb this grand dichotomy as an obvious bit of common sense, and then when we go off to study aesthetical matters in an Asian society, we take one or another version of it with us. Sometimes it appears as a contrast between sophisticated and folk; sometimes as one between elite and popular; sometimes as one between court and country. Sometimes it even takes on an air of scientific precision and objectivity: Great vs. Little Tradition, Civilization vs. Culture, Art vs. Craft, Literature vs. Lore.
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