Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory

Name: Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory
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ISBN: 9780198280149

ISBN-10: 0198280149

ISBN-13: 9780198280149

Edition: 1998

Authors: Alfred Gell

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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 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 of a category of action: Gell shows how art objects embody complex intentionalities and mediate social agency. He explores the psychology of patterns and perceptions, art and personhood, the control of knowledge, and the…

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List price: $155.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword




The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art



The Theory of the Art Nexus



The Art Nexus and the Index



The Involution of the Index in the Art Nexus



The Origination of the Index



The Critique of the Index



The Distributed Person



Style and Culture



Conclusion: The Extended Mind


Bibliography


Index