Distributed Objects : : Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell / / ed. by Mark Elliott, Liana Chua.
One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: ADVENTURES IN THE ART NEXUS -- CHAPTER 1 THREADS OF THOUGHT Reflections on Art and Agency -- CHAPTER 2 TECHNOLOGIES OF ROUTINE AND OF ENCHANTMENT -- CHAPTER 3 FIGURING OUT DEATH Sculpture and Agency at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Tomb of the First Emperor of China -- CHAPTER 4 THE NETWORK OF STANDARD STOPPAGES (C.1985) -- CHAPTER 5 GELL’S DUCHAMP/DUCHAMP’S GELL -- CHAPTER 6 MUSIC Ontology, Agency, Creativity -- CHAPTER 7 LITERARY ART AND AGENCY? Gell and the Magic of the Early Modern Book -- CHAPTER 8 ART, PERFORMANCE AND TIME’S PRESENCE Reflections on Temporality in Art and Agency -- CHAPTER 9 EPILOGUE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
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Summary: | One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell’s work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new territory – from music to literary technology and ontology to technological change – the contributors do not simply take stock, but also provoke, critically reassessing this important work while using it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780857457431 9783110998283 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780857457431 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Mark Elliott, Liana Chua. |