Actually all derek seems to be concerned with - is comparative aesthetics -
what makes the art of the Japanese aesthetically different from that of
Indonesia - in this there are no implied standards - just a need to entrench
oneself in other cultures - if that is possible to do without becoming an
anthropologist or succumbing to the ideological (taxonomic) prejudices of
one own culture - in that one would have to learn to appreciate the culture
of the other as they do, not as one imagines that do - the latter being a
highly romantic notion
