The beginnings of art

The beginnings of art

Author: Grosse, Ernst, 1862-1927

Year: 1897

CONTENTS. I. — The aim of the science of art 1 History of art — Philosophy of art and science of art — The problem of the science of art — Its limits — Its value. II. — The way to the science of art 9 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. III. — The primitive peoples 32 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. V. — Art 47 The nature of artistic activity — Art, play, and exercise - Art as a social phenomenon and a social function. — Classification of the arts. V. — Personal decoration 53 Decoration and clothing among the primitive peoples — Division of decoration — Body painting — Significance of colours — Fixed decoration — Scarification of the Aust