An Anthropological View
When looking at art from other cultures, do you consider it the same way you do art from your familiar culture? Do we still look at it in terms of aesthetic value? Social and historical context? Does the "exoticism" of the other culture distance us form the work? Does something made in a long ago far away era still have the power to speak to us across time? Do we try to relate it to our own culture or do we use a...