Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning: 3 (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, 3)

ISBN 10: 1782385665 / ISBN 13: 9781782385660

Published by Berghahn Books, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Objects and Imagination: Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning: 3 (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, 3)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782385665
• ISBN 13: 9781782385660
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

About the Authors

Řivind Fuglerud is professor of social anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His research interests include Diaspora formations, politics of cultural representation and aesthetics. He has published a number of works on the conflict in Sri Lanka and its consequences, including Life on the Outside – the Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance Nationalism (Pluto Press 1999).

Leon Wainwright is Kindler chair in Global Contemporary Art at Colgate University, New York and Reader in art history at the Open University, UK. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Open Arts Journal. His publications include Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (Manchester University Press, 2011) and numerous writings on modern and contemporary histories of art and global change. He is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for the history of art.