The Messages of Tourist Art: An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective

by Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Book Overview

Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer- cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning to artists in the traditional societies, who are seduced into a type of whoredom: unfeeling production of false beauty for money. The arts remain problematic for the social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475718292
• ISBN13: 9781475718294
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"