>We know precious little about the religions and politics of pre-Inca
>non-literate civilizations in Peru for example, so their art can
>scarcely any longer have ideological content beyond conjecture. Yet
>they can be worth visiting at the museum for purely aesthetic reasons.
But what is purely aesthetic? Looking at pre-Incan art in a museum in New York has a kind of political/ideological content of its own, no?