Anthropology Art And Aesthetics
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| Author | : Jeremy Coote |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780198279457 |
The anthropology of art is a fast-developing area of intellectual debate and academic study. This beautifully illustrated volume is a unique survey of the current state of anthropological thinking on art and aesthetics. The distinguished contributors draw on contemporary anthropological theory and on classic anthropological topics such as myth and ritual to deepen our understanding of particular aesthetic traditions in their socio-cultural and historical contexts. Many of the essays present new findings based on recent field research in Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and Mexico; while others draw on classical anthropological accounts of the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia and the Nuer of the Southern Sudan to form new arguments and conclusions. The introductory overview of the history of the anthropology of art, by Sir Raymond Firth, makes this volume especially useful for those interested in learning what anthropology has to contribute to our understanding of art and aesthetics in general.
| Author | : Richard L. Anderson |
| Publisher | : Pearson |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
True to anthropology's hallmark relativism, Anderson includes the popular arts in his analysis, giving as much attention to such things as wedding cakes, rock-n-roll, and tattoos as he does to fine arts, such as gallery paintings, classical music, and serious literature."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Alfred Gell |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 1998-07-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0191037451 |
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 interpretation of meaning, drawing upon a diversity of artistic traditions--European, Indian, Polynesian, Melanesian, and Australian. Art and Agency was completed just before Alfred Gell's death at the age of 51 in January 1997. It embodies the intellectual bravura, lively wit, vigour, and erudition for which he was admired, and will stand as an enduring testament to one of the most gifted anthropologists of his generation.
| Author | : Charlotte M. Otten |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Rupert Cox |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1136855580 |
The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist discourse. Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, Cox shows that the Zen arts are best understood in terms of a dynamic relationship between an aesthetic discourse on art and culture and the social and embodied experiences of those who participate in them.
| Author | : Alisse Waterston |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2020-10-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1487539134 |
What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted. A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, philosophers, activists, and anthropologists whose words are as meaningful today as they were during the times in which they were written. This book is at once a lament over the darkness of our times, an affirmation of the value of knowledge and introspection, and a consideration of truth, lies, and the dangers of the trivial. In a time when many of us struggle with the feeling that we cannot do enough to change the course of the future, this book is a call to action, asking us to envision and create an alternative world from the one in which we now live. Light in Dark Times is beautiful to look at and to hold – an exquisite work of art that is lively, informative, enlightening, deeply moving, and inspiring.
| Author | : Howard Morphy |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2009-02-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1405155329 |
This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers’ appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society.
| Author | : Brian Moeran |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2013-12-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136796738 |
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world bring to bear different sets of values as they negotiate the meaning of mingei and try to decide whether a pot is 'art', 'folk art', or mere 'craft'. At the same time, this book is an unusual monograph in that it reaches beyond the mere study of an isolated community to trace the origins and history of 'folk art' in general. By showing how a set of aesthetic ideals originating in Britain was taken to Japan, and thence back to Europe and the United States - as a result of the activities of people like William Morris, Yanagi So etsu, Bernard Leach and Hamada Sho ji - this book rewrites the history of contemporary western ceramics.
| Author | : Tarek Elhaik |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2021-08-26 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781350168824 |
This book offers an alternate approach to aesthetic anthropology through an inquiry into the work of 5 contemporary artists. The author shifts traditional ideas of aesthetic experience and the creative act away from the faculty of the imagination towards the faculty of cogitation, suggesting a new "anthropology of cogitation" that is underwritten by a general, artistic intelligence.The book draws from three interconnected resources: the vital "ecology of mind," theorized by anthropologist Gregory Bateson; the salutary play in intermediary "potential spaces," advocated by British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott; and the virtus cogitativa found in the oeuvre of Ibn Rushd (Latin Averroes), the 12th century rationalist thinker known for innovating Aristotelian psychology and science of the soul.By opening a new dialogue between anthropology, art history, and philosophy, Tarek Elhaik examines image-work, ethical demands, and aesthetic struggles of his interlocutors, the artists Adrian Piper, Anna Maria Maiolino, Mathias Goeritz, Mounir Fatmi, and Silvia Gruner.
| Author | : Maruska Svasek |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art and anthropology |
| ISBN | : 9781783714742 |
An introduction to anthropological perspectives on art that links the production of art to political and cultural processes.
