Distributed Objects
ISBN: 978-08-574-5744-8
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 232
Wydanie: 2013 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
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One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's <em>Art and Agency </em>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 <em>Art and Agency</em>, 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.</p>