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Art

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The creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process

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Oldest examples of art?

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-caves in France and Spain
-Estimated age:32,000 y.a.
-Crom-magnon culture:
~Attributed to Homo sapiens(underlined)

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Art in small scale cultures

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portable
-performing arts
-body decorating
-decorations on practical artifacts
art is embedded in other aspects of culture
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Art in large scale cultures

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Sedentary 
Labor specialization
-full-time specialists to make art 
-full-time critics to critique 
stratification
-are commissioned by upper class
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Verbal arts

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Creative words use on display that includes stories, myths, legends, tales, poetry, metaphor, rhyme, chants, drama, can’t, proverbs, jokes riddles, and tongue twisters
Fairytales, Folk songs, Folklore, myths, folktales, Urban legend

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Examples of Verbal arts

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Lakota creation myth (kangi the crow)

Iroquois folktale Chipmunk and Bear

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Music

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broadly speaking, an art form whose medium is sound and silence; a form of communication the includes a nonverbal auditory component with elements of tonality, pitch, rhythm, and timbre.

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Visual art

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Art created primarily for visual perception, ranging from etchings and paintings on various surfaces (including the human body) to sculptures and weavings made with an array of materials.

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ethnomusicology

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the study of a society’s music in terms of it’s cultural setting