A Return to the Object: Alfred Gell, Art, and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781350093478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Susanne Kuechler; Timothy Carroll

Opis

This book draws on the work of anthropologist Alfred Gell to reinstate the importance of the object in art and society. Rather than presenting art as a passive recipient of the artist's intention and the audience's critique, the authors consider it in the social environment of its production and reception.

Spis treści

Introduction: Gell and his influences  Part I: Rethinking the frame  Chapter 1: Lessons from the Art Nexus  Chapter 2: The index and indexicality  Chapter 3: The prototype and the model  Chapter 4: Immanent relationality and its consequences  Part II: Following the Prototype  Chapter 5: Virtuosity and style  Chapter 6: Aesthetics and the ethics of relation  Chapter 7: Generativity and transformation  Chapter 8: Agency (social)  Part III: Rediscovering the object  Chapter 9: Material agency  Chapter 10: Colour, Palette and Gestalt  Chapter 11: Patterns and their Transposition  Chapter 12: Motile Animacy