Anthropologies of Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300103530 ISBN 13: 9780300103533

Publisher: Clark Art Institute, 2005

Synopsis

02 Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term “art”? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural definition of art, or are such definitions inevitably Western in their origins and concerns? What implications do the answers to these questions have for the collecting and display of Western and non-Western objects in art museums? Fourteen leading art historians and anthropologists discuss these and other questions.
Based on the 2003 Clark Conference, this new volume in the highly successful series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts examines the intersections and divergences between art history and anthropology. How do these disciplines understand the term “art”? What sorts of questions do they ask of the work of art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural definition of art, or are such definitions inevitably Western in their origins and concerns? What implications do the answers to these questions have for the collecting and display of Western and non-Western objects in art museums? Fourteen leading art historians and anthropologists discuss these and other questions.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Clark Studies in the Visual Arts; Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

About the Author:

Mariėt Westermann is director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clark Art Institute
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300103530
• ISBN 13: 9780300103533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Westermann Mariėt