基本説明
Tackles divisive and controversial issues such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth.
Full Description
Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.
Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of contexts
Deals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth
Addresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions
Contents
List of Figures vi
Preface: Art Is Not What You Think It Is viii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Art and/as Manifesto 1
First Incursion: Artistry and Authorship 19
Second Incursion: The Dangers of Art and the Trap of the Visual 33
Third Incursion: To See the Frame that Blinds Us 52
Fourth Incursion: Deconstructing the Agencies of Art 74
Fifth Incursion: Intersections of the Local and the Global 94
Sixth Incursion: Into the Breach of Art and Religion 121
Seventh Incursion: The Art of Commodifying Artistry 142
Index 165
