The Aesthetics of Primitive Art - Tapa dura

...Blocker's book is a brave and welcome departure. He attempts to give the broadest possible view of the art of small-scale societies and how we might come to understand and enjoy it...[he] has written what is to date the finest purely philosophical investigation of ethnographic arts so far to apear in print... -- Denis Dutton, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM ...Blocker's book is a brave and welcome departure. He attempts to give the broadest possible view of the art of small-scale societies and how we might come to understand and enjoy it...[he] has written what is to date the finest purely philosophical investigation of ethnographic arts so far to apear in print... -- Denis Dutton, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM

In this work, Blocker extends the philosophy of art to traditional African, Pre-Columbian Meso-American, and other works of "primitive art". Contents: Is Primitive Art Primitive? Is Primitive Art Art? Aesthetic Consciousness in Primitive Art; Critical Assessment of Primitive Art.