Beyond Aesthetics

Art and the Technologies of Enchantment

Autor: Nicholas Thomas, Christopher Pinney

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The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in...

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Autor

Nicholas Thomas, Christopher Pinney

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2001

Pagini

300

EAN

9781859734643

ISBN

1859734642

Enbook ID

05119700

Editura

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Greutate

456

Dimensiuni

235 x 158 x 23

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The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, not as bearers of meaning or aesthetic value, but as forms mediating social action. At a stroke, Gell provocatively dismissed many longstanding but tired questions of definition and issues of aesthetic value. His book proposed a novel perspective on the roles of art in political practice and made fresh links between analyses of style, tradition and society. Offering a new overview of the anthropology of art, this book begins where Gell left off. Presenting wide-ranging critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy and the politics of postcolonial art, its distinguished contributors both elaborate on and dissent from the controversies of Gells important text. Subjects covered include music and the internet as well as ethnographic traditions and contemporary indigenous art. Geographically its case studies range from India to Oceania to North America and Europe.

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