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Arguments Presented in The Sacrificial Aesthetic by Dawn Permutter and Vogel's Net by Alfred Gell

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around them and the art they encounter as part of that world. Bibliography lists 3 sources. BWvogel.wps mikatama75@aol.com 4pp "Vogels Net" and  "The Sacrificial Aesthetic" By: C.B. Rodgers - September 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction The commonality that  exists between the arguments presented by Alfred Gell in "Vogels Net" (1996) and those in Dawn Perlmutters (1999) "The Sacrificial Aesthetic" present a reader with the dilemma of re-shaping his  or her ideas and assumptions regarding culture and art. It is neither appropriate nor meaningful to consider any object as being solely representative of the culture in which it  was produced or as only an article created for the glorification of aesthetic ideals. Perlmutter (1999) presents her ideas in terms of how there are numerous "expressions of the aesthetic  that manifests itself in blood and flesh." Comparing the two requires that a reader understand that both authors are presenting their perspectives on the world around them and the art  they encounter as part of that world. Gells approach is primarily from the anthropological point of view while Perlmutter demonstrates how many of what would have once been (and  often still are) considered "barbaric" practices are attributes that may be specifically associated with the creation of art and the expression of an artistic aesthetic. "Vogels Net" Anthropologist Alfred  Gell (1945-1997) was generally considered by his colleagues and critics to have been a consistent structuralist. His "Vogels Net -- Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps" demonstrates his  point of view regarding the relationships that exist between ideology and objects, artwork and assumption. Gell (1996) believes that: ". . . Every work of art that works is like