Distributed Objects
Author： Passerini Luisa;Ellena Liliana;
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9780857457431
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780857457448
Subject： J0-05 Art and other sciences)
Keyword： null 社会学,世界各国艺术概况Overview of World ArtSociology
Language： ENG
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Description
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.
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