Art and Communication : An Alternative Introduction to Anthropology of Arts

アート　ト　コミュニケーション　ゲイジュツ　ジンルイガク　ヘノ　モウヒトツ　ノ　イリグチ

イケダ, ミツホ

Ikeda, Mitsuho

アート

美なるもの

視覚表象

芸術作品

cultural anthropology

fine arts

the esthetic

visual arts

opus of arts

This research note aims to recapture the concept of arts to ordinary people, especially university students, from artists and other related professionals who dominate the market of art industries. By introducing to elementary concepts of cultural anthropology, the project begins to rethink and criticize the modern stereotype for fine arts as supreme activity by human being. The author introduces the story that any kind of arts products have potential to call to people, then he explains that people has no choice but to response to them that can be analyzed as communication process. A various ethnographic and historical cases are submitted to readers for verifying these cognitive processes in artistic activities. The project postulates that class for anthropology of arts can be suitable for students that want to learn transferable skills in any kind of academic area of post-graduate curricula.