Osborne / Tanner Art's Agency and Art History

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77727-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Interventions in Art History

Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationshipof the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoreticalapproaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics.
* * Explores important concepts and perspectives in theanthropology of art
* Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationallyrenowned 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 Westernworld
* Features an introductory essay by leading experts, which helpsclarify issues in the field
* Includes numerous illustrations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osborne, Robin

Tanner, Jeremy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface.
Preface.
List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: Art and Agency and Art History: JeremyTanner (University College London ) and Robin Osborne (Universityof Cambridge).
2. Enchantment and Sacrifice in Early Egypt: David Wengrow(University College London).
3. Agency Marked, Agency Ascribed: The Affective Object inAncient Mesopotamia: Irene J. Winter (Harvard University).
4. Portraits and Agency: A Comparative View: Jeremy Tanner(University College London).
5. The Agency of, and the Agency for, the Wanli Emperor: JessicaRawson (University of Oxford).
6. The Material Efficacy of the Elizabethan Jeweled Miniature: aGellian Experiment: Jessen Kelly (University of California atBerkeley).
7. Representational Art in Ancient Peru and the Work of AlfredGell: Jeffrey Quilter (Peabody Museum, Harvard).
8. Gell's Idols and Roman Cult: Peter Stewart (CourtauldInstitute of Art in London).
9. Sex, Agency, and History: the Case of Athenian PaintedPottery: Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge).
10. Abducting the Agency of Art: Whitney Davis (University ofCalifornia at Berkeley).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of Cambridge. He writes widely across the range of Greekhistory, Greek archaeology, and Classical art history. He is theauthor of Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) and ofGreek History (2004).
Jeremy Tanner is a lecturer at the Institute ofArchaeology, University College London, where he teaches Classicalarchaeology and comparative art. He is the editor of TheSociology of Art: a Reader (2003), and the author of TheInvention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society andArtistic Rationalisation (2006)