Thinking with Things Toward a New Vision of Art

Name: Thinking with Things Toward a New Vision of Art
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ISBN: 9780292706910

ISBN-10: 029270691X

ISBN-13: 9780292706910

Edition: 2005

Authors: Esther Pasztory

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What is "art"? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works of art? Is there any way of defining art that can encompass everything from Paleolithic objects to the virtual images created by the latest computer technology? Questions such as these have preoccupied Esther Pasztory since the beginning of her scholarly career. In this authoritative volume, she distills four decades of research and reflection to propose a pathbreaking new way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it that can be applied to all cultures throughout time. At its heart, Pasztory's thesis is simple and yet profound. She asserts that humans create…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



A Note to the Reader


Acknowledgments



Introduction to Part One



Things



Thinking with Things



Levels of Social Integration



Insistence



Superpositions



Impersonation



Enhancement



Apotheosis



Iconoclasm/Aestheticism



Media/Marginalization



Transition


Bibliography to Part One



Introduction to Part Two: Confessions of a Formalist



Still Invisible: The Problem of the Aesthetics of Abstraction for Pre-Columbian Art and Its Implications for Other Cultures



Identity and Difference: The Uses and Meanings of Ethnic Styles



The Portrait and the Mask: Invention and Translation



Aesthetics and Pre-Columbian Art



Andean Aesthetics



Three Aztec Masks of the God Xipe



Shamanism and North American Indian Art


Index