Art and Agency (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
296
Utgivningsdatum
1998-07-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
numerous black and white halftones and line drawings
Illustrationer
b&w photos, line drawings
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235 x 160 x 18 mm
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540 g
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1
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,
ISBN
9780198280149

Art and Agency

An Anthropological Theory

av Alfred Gell
Häftad,  Engelska, 1998-07-01
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Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He shows how art objects embody complex intentionalities and mediate social agency, and he explores the psychology of patterns and perceptions, art and personhood, the control of knowledge, and the interpretation of meaning, drawing upon a diversity of artistic traditions--European, Indian, Polynesian, Melanesian, and Australian. Art and Agency was completed just before Alfred Gell's death at the age of 51 in January 1997. It embodies the intellectual bravura, lively wit, vigour, and erudition for which he was admired, and will stand as an enduring testament to one of the most gifted anthropologists of his generation.
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Maurice Bloch, FBA, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics. This book changes the very basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. It presents what is the first fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. Its publication is a major event.

Marilyn Strathern, FBA, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge This is a remarkable work ... witty, elegant, broad in its compass and scintillating in its detail. It is characteristically polemical ... alive with his sense of purpose and his quite original and captivating account of how we are captivated by relations between forms ... The book know what to do with the limits of form--one suddenly sees how anthropology might surpass itself.

Caroline Humphrey, Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge An extraordinary achievement. Gell offers a profound new understanding of collective agency which completely reshapes the anthropology of art, redefines its objects of study, and inspires new conclusions.

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<br>Alfred Gell is a former Reader in Anthropology in the London School of Economics.<br>

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword; 1. The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art; 2. The Theory of the Art Nexus; 3. The Art Nexus and the Index; 4. The Involution of the Index in the Art Nexus; 5. The Origination of the Index; 6. The Critique of the Index; 7. The Distributed Person; 8. Style and Culture; 9. Conclusion: The Extended Mind; Bibliography; Index

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