The beginning of art
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: I. — The aim of the science of art 1; title: History of art — Philosophy of art and science of art — The problem of the science of art — Its limits — Its value.; title: II. — The way to the science of art 9; title: The two forms of the problem of the science of art — The individual form and its difficulties — The social form — Its history — Dubos, Herder, Taine, Hennequin, Guyau — The old and the new methods — The comparative ethnological method — The study of primitive forms — Its difficulties — Collection and significance of the material.; title: III. — The primitive peoples 32; title: The conception of primitive peoples in sociology and ethnology — Peoples and races — The significance of production to culture — Influence of production on the develop- ment of the family and of religion — The degeneration hypothesis — The primitive peoples of the present — Their culture.; title: V. — Art 47; title: The nature of artistic activity — Art, play, and exercise - Art as a social phenomenon and a social function. — Classification of the arts.; title: V. — Personal decoration 53; title: Decoration and clothing among the primitive peoples — Division of decoration — Body painting — Significance of colours — Fixed decoration — Scarification of the Australians and Mincopies and its meaning — The tattooing of the Bushmen and Eskimo — Ear, lip, and nose ornaments — Hair dressing — Movable decoration of the head, the neck, tho loins — Loin decoration and the feeling of shame — Limb decoration — Decoration of clothing of the Eskimo — Fashion in the lowest grades of culture — Esthetic value of primitive dress decoration — Lustre, colours, forms, symmetry, and eurhythmy — Associations — Decoration of primitive and civilized peoples — Practical significance of decoration — attractive dress and terrifying dress — Kelation of male and female ornament — Meaning of ornament among the higher peoples — Ornament as a mark of rank — Duration and chungc of fashions in dress ornament — The future of dress ornament.; title: VI. — Ornamentation 115; title: Ornamentation of implements in the lowest degrees of culture — The “geometrical pattern” of primitive ornamentation — The sources of ornamentation — Natural motives — Technical motives — Original meaning of primitive ornament-inscriptions, property marks, tribal symbols, reli- gious symbols — Imitations of technical motives — Primary and secondary ornaments — Esthetical significance of writing — Esthetical value of primitive ornaments — Influence of primitive culture on ornamentation — Influence of primitive ornamentation on culture.; title: II. — Representative art 163; title: Pictorial works from the reindeer period — Cave paintings, rock carvings and bark drawings of the Australians — Paintings of the Bushmen — Pictorial work of the hyperboreans ; drawings and carvings — The masks of the south western Eskimo — Diffusion of pictorial talent among the hunting peoples — Pictorial art of primitive peoples and pictorial art of children — Primitive pictorial art and primitive production — Relation to religion — Pictures and picture writing — Practical significance of pictorial art; title: VIII. — The dance 207; title: Kinds of primitive dances — Gymnastic dances — Mimetic dances — Esthetic value — Religious dances — The social significance of primitive dances — Decline of the art of dancing — The modern dance.; title: IX. — Poetry 232; title: Quantitative and qualitative lack of material — Nature of poetry — Spencer’s undifferentiated primitive poetry — The primitive lyric — Examples — Contents and form — General character — Value of the primitive lyric for poet and public — Lyric and music — The primitive epic — Poetical narration, historical tradition, and scientific myth — Compass of primitive epics — Content — Treatment and characters — Animal stories of the Bushmen — Marchen of the Eskimo — The history of little Kagsagsuk — Foreign influence — The primitive drama — Its two sources — A pantomime of the Aleuts — An Australian moral piece — Social significance of poetry.; title: X. — Music 278; title: Connection of music with the dance and poetry — The two views on tho nature and origin of music — Schopenhauer and Spencer — Matter and form of music — Primitive vocal rausio — Primitive instrumental music — General character of primitive music — Primitive music and Spencer’s speech theory — Darwin on the first development of musical talent — Development of rhythm and harmony — Peculiar influence of music — Practical significance of music — Martial and dancing music — Essential significance of music — Music and culture.; title: XI. — Conclusion 305; title: Retrospect — Nature of primitive art — Its conditions — Its effects — Art as a means in the struggle for existence — Social and individual significance of art.; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.; title: FIG. PAGE; title: 1.  Australian scratched Designs from Shields and Clubs. (After Brough Smyth.) 117; title: 2.  Ornaments of the Karaya. (After Ehrenreich.) 119; title: 3.  Ornaments of the Karaya. (After Ehrenreich.) 121; title: 4.  Shield from South Australia (after Eyre), and Shield from Queensland (Berlin Museum) 122; title: 5.  Australian Shields from Victoria, with scratched Designs. (After Brough Smyth.) 124; title: 6.  Australian Throw-stick, with a Map of the Country scratched on it. (After Brough Smyth.) 125; title: 7.  Ornaments of the M incopies. (From Man.) 126; title: 8.  Bone Implements of the Eskimo, with Animal Ornaments. (After Jacobsen.) 127; title: 9.  Bone Implements of the Eskimo in the Form of Animals. (After Jacobsen.) 128; title: 10. Bone Implements of the Eskimo, with Ornaments from Technical Motives. (From photographs.) 129; title: 11. Ornamental Details of Bone Implements of the Eskimo. (From photographs.) 130; title: 12. Potsherds from the Andaman Islands. (After Man.) 131; title: 13. Australian Spear, with Technic Ornament. (After Brough Smyth.) 132; title: 14. A Message Stick (after Howitt) and a Shield from Australia 134; title: 15. An Indian Picture-writing Sign for a Lapse of Time (after Mallery), and a Drill Bow of the Eskimo (from a photograph) 136; title: 16. Property Marks. (After Lartet, Christy, and Choris) 138; title: 17. Mineopy Girdle. (After Man.) 148; title: 18. Australian Shields. (After Brough Smyth.) 152; title: 19. Dagger-Handle of Reindeer Horn. (From a cast.) 164; title: 20. Australian Cave Painting at Glenelg. (After Grey.) 166; title: 21. Australian Cave Painting at Glenelg. (After Grey.) 167; title: 22. Australian Cave Painting at Glenelg. (After Grey.) 169; title: 23. Australian Rock Sculptures on Depuch Island. (After Stokes.) 171; title: 24. Australian Drawing. (After Brough Smyth.) 176; title: 25. Australian Grave Tablet of Bark. (After Brough Smyth.) 177; title: 26. Rock Drawings of the Bushmen. (After Fritsch.) 182; title: 27. Carving by an Eskimo on a piece of Walrus Tusk 186; title: 28. Drawing by a Tchukchi. (After Hildebrand.) 187; title: 29. Hyperborean Bone Carvings. (After Hildebrand.) 188; title: 30. Aleut Carvings on Bones. (After Hildebrand.) 189; title: 31. Bone Carvings of the Eskimo. (After Boas.) 191; title: 32. Picture Writing from Alaska. (After Mailery.) 202; title: FULL-PAGE PLATES.; title: Plate I.   — Australian Bark Drawing. (After Andree.); title: Plate II.  — Pen Drawing by an Australian. (After Andree.); title: Plate III. — A Cave Painting of the Bushmen. (After Andree.)