Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art /
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TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: 252 p. : ill. ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0292765975 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 029270691X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 701 22
- N66 .P37 2005
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Carleton University, AVRC | Open-stacks | N66 .P37 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 16055000631 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.
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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