Aesthetics and Anthropology: Cogitations

ISBN-13: 9781350168824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 138 str.

Tarek Elhaik

Opis

This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art.

Spis treści

Preface; Prelude: The Cogitator; 1 The Art of Cogitation; 2 Mathias Goeritz / Concrete Abstractions; 3 Silvia Gruner / Desperate Playfulness; 4 Mounir Fatmi / Cerebral Compositions; 5 Patricia Lagarde / A Naturalist’s Blues; 6 Marine Cogitations; References

O autorze

Tarek Elhaik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA, and the author of The Incurable Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts (Edinburgh U. Press, 2016). He is also the founder of AIL: Anthropology Image Lab.