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Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art / Esther Pasztory

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Author:
Pasztory, Esther  Search this
Physical description:
252 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2005
C2005
Contents:
Part one. Introduction to part one -- 1. Things -- 2. Thinking with things -- 3. Levels of social integration -- 4. Insistence -- 5. Superpositions -- 6. Impersonation -- 7. Enhancement -- 8. Apotheosis -- 9. Iconoclasm/aestheticism -- 10. Media/marginalization -- 11. Transition -- Bibliography to part one -- Part two. Introduction to part two : confessions of a formalist -- 12. Still invisible : the problems of the aesthetics of abstraction for pre-Columbian art and its implications for other cultures -- 13. Identity and difference : the uses and meanings of ethnic styles -- 14. The portrait and the mask : invention and translation -- 15. Aesthetics and pre-Columbian art -- 16. Andean aesthetics -- 17. Three Aztec masks of the God Xipe -- 18. Shamanism and North American Indian art -- Index
Topic:
Art--Philosophy  Search this
Art and society  Search this
Art and anthropology  Search this
Cognition--Social aspects  Search this
Indian art  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_787680