Preziosi / Farago Art Is Not What You Think It Is

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5428-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 124 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original researchto present a series of critical incursions into the current stateof debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largelymissing or unsaid in those discussions.
* Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to therealities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they havestructurally functioned in a variety of contexts
* Deals with divisive and controversial problems such asblasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth
* Addresses relations between European notions about art andartifice and those developed in other and especially indigenouscultural traditions

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preziosi, Donald

Farago, Claire

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vi
Preface: Art Is Not What You Think It Is viii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Art and/as Manifesto 1
First Incursion: Artistry and Authorship 19
Second Incursion: The Dangers of Art and the Trap of the Visual33
Third Incursion: To See the Frame that Blinds Us 52
Fourth Incursion: Deconstructing the Agencies of Art 74
Fifth Incursion: Intersections of the Local and the Global94
Sixth Incursion: Into the Breach of Art and Religion 121
Seventh Incursion: The Art of Commodifying Artistry 142
Index 165

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Preziosi is Emeritus Professor of Art History andCritical Theory at UCLA, and Former Slade Professor of Fine Art atOxford. He trained in art history, classics, and linguistics atHarvard, and is the author and co-author of many books includingThe Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (2009).
Claire Farago is Professor of Renaissance Art Theory andCriticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is authorand co-author of many books on art theory, historiography, andmuseums, and is an authority on the manuscripts of Leonardo daVinci. Her numerous publications include Re-Reading Leonardo:The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550-1900 (2009).
Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago have previously collaborated asco-editors of Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum(2004).