Art and Its Uses
- About this book
- Chapter 1. Traditions
- Hamatsa Raven dancer
- Oni of Ife
- Queen Victoria’s parure
- Chapter 2. Cultural memories
- Aleut baidarka
- The Birth of Aphrodite
- The Birds of America
- Boatmen on the Missouri
- American Gothic
- Nighthawks
- Chapter 3. Symbolic powers
- King Tut’s pectoral
- Egyptian funerary boat
- Our Lady of Kazan
- Horloge astrolabique
- Chapter 4. Beauty
- Mona Lisa
- A Woman Bathing in a Stream
- Woman with a Parasol
- Delta Farms
- Chapter 5. Teachings
- Arrangement in Grey and Black
- Monet’s wheatstacks
- The Starry Night
- The Treachery of Images
- Sky Blue
- Chapter 6. Costumes
- Djibouti jile
- White Punu mask
- Panama hat
- Chapter 7. Aspirations
- Hakone, the View of Ashinoko Lake
- A Fair Wind
- The Dancer
- Luncheon of the Boating Party