Aesthetics and Anthropology : Cogitations

著者名：Elhaik, Tarek

Routledge（2021/11/29発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032135311
• eISBN：9781000213560

Description

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. Tarek Elhaik embarks on an inquiry composed of a series of cogitations based on fieldwork in an ecology of artistic and scientific practices: from conceptual art exhibitions to architectural environments; from photographic montages to the videotaping of spirit seances; and from artistic interventions in natural history museums to ongoing dialogues between performance artists and marine scientists. The chapters examine the image-work, ethical demands, and aesthetic struggles of interlocutors including artists Mathias Goeritz, Mounir Fatmi, Silvia Gruner, Joan Jonas, and Patricia Lagarde.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prelude: The Cogitator / Anthropology as Averroism

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

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