1.1. "Alternative theories of design were being promoted through new art schools, and indian design became increasingly popular after its display in the great exhibition of 1851" (Burt 43).
1.2. The Great Exhibition of 1851:The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition which took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.
1.3. The Great Exhibition of 1851
2. Chapter 4: Primitive Art
2.1. "The invention of "primitive man" ignored these small-society values and conveniently avoided the difficult contradictions between ideas of universal humanity, cultural difference, and, colonial self-interest" (Burt 54).
2.2. Primitive: Primitive culture, in the lexicon of early anthropologists, any of numerous societies characterized by features that may include lack of a written language, relative isolation, small population, relatively simple social institutions and technology, and a generally slow rate of sociocultural change.
2.3. How Do Cultures Evolve? - featuring Edward Burnett Tylor — Anthropology Theory #1
3. Chapter 5: Prehistoric Art
3.1. "Old stone age (Paleolithic) people lived by hunting, later renamed "hunting and gathering" in recognition that important wild staples like shellfish and nuts are not hunted and better described as "foraging"" (Burt 70).
3.2. Foraging: is the act of gathering wild food for free. Although it's gained far greater popularity in recent years, for our distant ancestors foraging would simply have been a way of life – a necessity in fact.
3.3. Foraging a Wild Lunch | The Salt | NPR
4. Chapter 11: The Art World
4.1. "Western ideas about art have had a pervasive and often profound effect upon other artistic traditions through the process of colonial expansion and global hegemony" (Burt 159).
4.2. Global Hegemony: the dominance of one power on the global stage; or the regional predominance of a single country.
4.3. Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony
5. Chapter 14: Artist Colonialism
5.1. "Western imaging, particularly painting and photography, has a long and continuing tradition of portraying subject peoples-whether governed and exploited from Europe or dispossessed by colonial settlement--as if they were survivals from an earlier age who have been overtaken by the progress of civilization" (Burt 205).
5.2. Blackfoot Tribe: The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi or Siksikaitsitapi, is a historic collective name for linguistically related groups that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: the Siksika, the Kainai or Blood, and two sections of the Peigan or Piikani – the Northern Piikani and the Southern Piikani.
5.3. The BlackFoot Tribe
6. Chapter 1: The Origins of Art
6.1. "By the eighteenth century, the a European elite had identified the knowledge and skill to create beautiful, thought-provoking images as an art superior to the production of other artefacts and had established as disciplines the history of art (or atleast of artists) and the connoisseurship of artistic value" (Burt 11).
6.2. Mesopotamia: was a historical region situated within the Tigris-Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of syria, southeastern turkey, and regions along the turkish-syrian and iran-iraq borders.
6.3. Ancient Mesopotamia 101 | National Geographic
7. Chapter 2: Classical Art
7.1. "Even art historians who were skeptical of Hegelian ideas of "spirit" shared the underlying assumption that european civilization was at the forefront of artistic progress" (Burt 30).
7.2. Modernism: is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformation sin Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
7.3. What is Modernism? (See links below for "What is Modernism?" and "What is Postmodernity?")
8. Chapter 12: The Exotic Primitive
8.1. "The idea that certain peoples were primitive, representing the ancient antecedents of the Western civilization that was destined to improve or supersede them, was at first an impediment to the appreciation of their artefacts, which were long collected as"curios" rather than as "art."" (Burt 172).
8.2. Colonialism: the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
8.3. Colonialism
9. Chapter 13: Marketing Exotic Art
9.1. "The development of export art on the Northwest Coast of North America for the Haida of Queen Charlotte Islands has been traced by Carol Kaufman (1976). Like others in the region (see Chapter 5 and pages 105-6 ), these people once decorated artefacts of all kinds with creatures of the forests and seas, often with human and other special characteristics" (Burt 190).
9.2. Haida: a member of a North American people of coastal British Columbia and southeastern Alaska.
9.3. First Haida language film offers rare, powerful glimpse of Haida people
10. Chapter 15: The Global and The Local
10.1. "The world has changed even more rapidly in the last one hundred years. By the early twentieth century, European settlers had taken control of the whole of North America, Australia, and New Zealand, much of South America, and parts of south and east Africa" (Burt 222).
10.2. Industrialization: the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
10.3. Industrialization and imperialism | World History | Khan Academy
