Title:
Thinking with things toward a new vision of art / Esther Pasztory.
Main Entry:
Pasztory, Esther.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
University of Texas Press,
Publication Date:
c2005.
Publication Place:
Austin :
ISBN:
0292765975 (hardcover : alk. paper)
029270691X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Art -- Philosophy.
Art and society.
Art and anthropology.
Cognition -- Social aspects.
Indian art.
Electronic books.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Part one. Introduction to part one -- 1. Things -- 2. Thinking with things -- 3. Levels of social integration -- 4. Insistence -- 5. Superpositions -- 6. Impersonation -- 7. Enhancement -- 8. Apotheosis -- 9. Iconoclasm/aestheticism -- 10. Media/marginalization -- 11. Transition -- Bibliography to part one -- Part two. Introduction to part two : confessions of a formalist -- 12. Still invisible : the problems of the aesthetics of abstraction for pre-Columbian art and its implications for other cultures -- 13. Identity and difference : the uses and meanings of ethnic styles -- 14. The portrait and the mask : invention and translation -- 15. Aesthetics and pre-Columbian art -- 16. Andean aesthetics -- 17. Three Aztec masks of the God Xipe -- 18. Shamanism and North American Indian art -- Index.
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