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Cultural appropriation and the arts / James O. Young.

by Young, James O., 1957-

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Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Arts and society.

Arts -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Cultural property.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007024780.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007024780-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007024780-d.html

9781405176569 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1405176563 (hardcover : alk. paper)

New directions in aesthetics ; 6

xiv, 168 p. ; 24 cm.

Preface -- 1. What is cultural appropriation? -- Art, culture, and appropriation -- Types of cultural appropriation -- What is a culture? -- Objections to cultural appropriation -- In praise of cultural appropriation -- 2. The aesthetics of cultural appropriation -- The aesthetic handicap thesis -- The cultural experience argument -- Aesthetic properties and cultural context -- Authenticity and appropriation -- Authentic appropriation -- Cultural experience and subject appropriation -- Appropriation and the authentic expression of a culture -- 3. Cultural appropriation as theft -- Harm by theft -- Possible owners of artworks -- Cultures and inheritance -- Lost and abandoned property -- Cultural property and traditional law -- Collective knowledge and collective property -- Ownership of land ownership of art -- Property and value to a culture -- Cultures and intellectual property -- Some conclusions about ownership and appropriation -- The rescue argument --

4. Cultural appropriation as assault -- Other forms of harm -- Cultural appropriation and harmful misrepresentation -- Harm and accurate representation -- Cultural appropriation and economic opportunity -- Cultural appropriation and assimilation -- Art, insignia, and cultural identity -- Cultural appropriation and privacy -- 5. Profound offence and cultural appropriation -- Harm, offence, and profound offence -- Examples of offensive cultural appropriation -- The problem and the key to its solution -- Social value and offensive art -- Freedom of expression -- The sacred and the offensive -- Time and place restrictions -- Toleration of offensive art -- Reasonable and unreasonable offence -- Conclusion : Responding to cultural appropriation -- Summing up -- Supporting minority artists -- Envoy -- Bibliography of works cited and consulted -- Index.

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