Art's Agency and Art History
New Interventions in Art History
1. Auflage April 2007
244 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics.
* Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art
* Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned 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 Western world
* Features an introductory essay by leading experts, which helps clarify issues in the field
* Includes numerous illustrations
Preface.
List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: Art and Agency and Art History: Jeremy
Tanner (University College London ) and Robin Osborne (University
of Cambridge).
2. Enchantment and Sacrifice in Early Egypt: David Wengrow
(University College London).
3. Agency Marked, Agency Ascribed: The Affective Object in
Ancient 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: Jessica
Rawson (University of Oxford).
6. The Material Efficacy of the Elizabethan Jeweled Miniature: a
Gellian Experiment: Jessen Kelly (University of California at
Berkeley).
7. Representational Art in Ancient Peru and the Work of Alfred
Gell: Jeffrey Quilter (Peabody Museum, Harvard).
8. Gell's Idols and Roman Cult: Peter Stewart (Courtauld
Institute of Art in London).
9. Sex, Agency, and History: the Case of Athenian Painted
Pottery: Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge).
10. Abducting the Agency of Art: Whitney Davis (University of
California at Berkeley).
Index
its chapters, but also because it shows promising perspectives in
the cross-fertilization between anthropology and art history."
(Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March
2009)
"This book represents an extended, timely and extremely valuable
exploration of the applicability of the work of Alfred Gell."
(The Classical Review, 2008)
"Not a single paper presented here failed to provoke or delight
this reviewer. This edited volume offers an excellent introduction
to Gell's ideas.... It will surely form an important place in
the growing canon of Gell-inspired literature." (Journal of
Hellenic Studies, February 2009)
University of Cambridge. He writes widely across the range of Greek
history, Greek archaeology, and Classical art history. He is the
author of Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) and of
Greek History (2004).
Jeremy Tanner is a lecturer at the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London, where he teaches Classical
archaeology and comparative art. He is the editor of The
Sociology of Art: a Reader (2003), and the author of The
Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and
Artistic Rationalisation (2006)
