Art's Agency and Art History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405135387 ISBN 13: 9781405135382

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics.

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• Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art
  
• Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists
  
• Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world
  
• Features an introductory essay by leading experts, which helps clarify issues in the field
  
• Includes numerous illustrations

About this title

Book Description:

Art's Agency and Art History throws the subject of the anthropology of art into brilliant and much-needed relief, by re-articulating its relationships to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. Using Alfred Gell's influential work as a touchstone, the book showcases nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists. Following an accessible introductory overview, the collection explores concepts and perspectives in a wide range of contexts, ranging from such cultures as Bronze Age China and Mesopotamia to those of Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, the Classic Maya and finally of the modern western world.

From the Back Cover:

Art’s Agency and Art History develops a scintillating dialogue between anthropology and art history. It throws the subject of the anthropology of art into striking and much-needed relief, by re-articulating its relationships to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. Using Alfred Gell’s influential work as a touchstone, the book showcases nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists. Following an accessible introductory to Gell’s anthropology of art, and its relationship with contemporary art history, the collection explores concepts and perspectives in a wide range of contexts, ranging from such cultures as Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to those of Classical Greece and Rome, Imperial China, the Moche of Peru, and finally the modern Western world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405135387
• ISBN 13: 9781405135382
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Osborne Robin, Tanner Jeremy