Author(s)

Gou Aiping

Corresponding Author

Gou Aiping

ABSTRACT

Boas discussed some artistic problems including art, technology, the relations among habit, gender, hierarchy, and artistic style as well as splitting method by applying cultural relativism to analyze some basic characteristics of Aboriginal art in North America. Some of the concepts of Boas’s primitive art were doubted by some scholars at one time and Boas responded these artistic views. Boas applied cultural relativism and concept of history to study methods of primitive art, which is suggestive for artistic study.

KEYWORDS

Boas, Cultural relativism, Artistic thought, Inspiration