Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

The Trouble With Art : An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism, Hardback Book

The Trouble With Art : An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism Hardback

Edited by Roger Sansi, Jonas Tinius

Part of the Routledge Studies in Anthropology series

Hardback

Description

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution.

But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice.

Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together.

This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.

Information

£130.00

 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Routledge Studies in Anthropology series  |  View all