Look · Listen · Read

Author: (French) Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by Gu Jiachen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Throughout the course of time, the author has seen many paintings, heard much music, and read many books: these extraordinary and wonderful works weave together in his mind into a network of mutual resonance. From the perspective of an ethnographer, the author narrates the story of how South American Indians create their unique artistic works through mythology, elucidates certain principles that serve as the foundation for aesthetic judgment, and points out the important position that art should hold in the realm of spiritual knowledge.