[PDF.75qm] Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory

Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory

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 | #1339144 in eBooks |  1998-07-09 |  1998-07-09 | File type: PDF

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| great book|By David Morgan|difficult, occasionally quite wrong, but enormously helpful and suggestive, and a major piece of work shaping the conversation. Strongly recommend for those interested in objects and their agencies|0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Too abstract|By J. VAN OOIJEN|Unlike many others, I a| ||"[This] is not only a contribution to anthropology but a subtle and original counterweight to the banalities of globalization theory."--Times Literary Supplement|||About the Author||Alfred Gell i

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 argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to others. The anthropology of art is here reformulated as the anthropology

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory   |  Alfred Gell. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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