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Beyond Aesthetics : Art and the Technologies of Enchantment by Christopher Pinney and Nicholas Thomas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond Aesthetics : Art and the Technologies of Enchantment about?
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 Gell’s important text. Subjects covered include music and the intern
Who reads Beyond Aesthetics : Art and the Technologies of Enchantment?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher Pinney and Nicholas Thomas
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781859734643
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Science, Sociology
