![]() ![]() Some younger scholars have sought to approach African art as inseparable, for all practical purposes, from complexes of sound. ![]() Students of the arts of Africa have also been reluctant to confront the esthetic and artistic dimensions of their data traditional art-historical and critical perspectives have been subordinated to the gathering and organization of masses of minutely particularized behavioral information. ![]() There seems to be little question, however, that art-historical questions have received-and continue to receive-comparatively little scholarly ’attention. A history of African art comparable in scope and depth to those achieved for the major Western and Oriental traditions lies in the future, although some promising beginnings have been made. AS AN ASPECT OF WESTERN intellectual history, the systematic study of African art must be regarded as still in its infancy. ![]()
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