| Abstract: | African writers and critics share a common aesthetic problem: they have to face the difficulty of fitting the idea of the ethnocentric into the concept of the universal, as well as find the right medium for accurately communicating both the experience and the judgment passed on the experience. The question of terminology is two-sided: European concepts are applied to African works of art, and the interpretations of African concepts derive from alien perceptions. Sections of the article: The problem - 2. Principles (The field of illusion; Natural vision and the cultural context; The gloom of a shrine; The enhancement of the object). Ref. |
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