Levi-Strauss's Aesthetic Views

Author: (French) Meigio
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Lévi-Strauss is a renowned anthropologist and structuralist, once hailed as one of the most influential thinkers in 20th-century France. Just as Strauss believed that art is a condensation of the real, the author compresses Strauss's aesthetic thought. What is most enlightening is the analysis of shamanism, mythology, and art using the concepts of "unstable signifiers" and symbolic systems, as well as the convincing examination of the relationship between symbols and allegory. Strauss is first and foremost an anthropologist, and from the historical dimension of anthropology, he grants considerable importance to "diachronic" studies alongside "synchronic" research in his aesthetic thought.