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Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art. Esther Pasztory

Pasztory, Esther [1923-...] cop. 2005

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Title:
Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art. Esther Pasztory
Author: Pasztory, Esther [1923-...]
Subjects: Art -- Philosophy;
Art -- Philosophie;
Art and society;
Art -- Aspect social;
Art and anthropology;
Art et anthropologie;
Cognition -- Social aspects;
Cognition -- Aspect social;
Indian art;
Art indien d'Amérique
Description: Table des matières
Bibliogr. p. 241-242. Index
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020341.html
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
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, cop. 2005
Creation Date: cop. 2005
Format: 1 vol. (252 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm
Language: English

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