The Trouble with Art

An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-22391-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sansi, Roger

Tinius, Jonas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Trouble with Art in Anthropology

Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius

Part I: Philistinism

1 The Philistine Trap: A Para-Ethnography of the Trouble with an Art Centre in Barcelona

Roger Sansi

2 "What Has Theatre Ever Done for Us?": Traditions of Anti-theatricality

Jonas Tinius

3 Both Sides Now: Ambiguity in Art and Anthropology

Eleana Yalouri

Part II: The Contemporary

4 “We’re Saving a Way of Life”: Indigenous Australian Acrylic Painting and its Troubles with the Categories of Art and Value

Fred Myers

5 Longing for the Contemporary of Art

Thomas Fillitz

6 When Multiplicity is not Enough: Questioning Global Art and an Approach to Other Genealogies and Co-design

Giuliana Borea

Part III: Assemblages

7 Co-ethnographers in the Storm: Investigating Post-socialist Decline with Contemporary Artists

Francisco Martínez

8 An Enduring Interval: The Artwork as a Re-assembling

Kiven Strohm

9 Parasitic Projects and the Politics of Research-Creation

Jennifer Clarke

10 Texture of Nothing

Marina Peterson and Jesse Weaver Shipley

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Sansi is a professor of anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was founding co-convenor (with Jonas Tinius) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

Jonas Tinius is a scientific coordinator and postdoctoral researcher in cultural anthropology on the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism at Saarland University. He was founding co-convenor (with Roger Sansi) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).