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 contextsDeals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemyand idolatry, and the problem of artistic truthAddresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions INDICE: List of Figures viPreface: Art Is Not What You Think It Is viiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Art and/as Manifesto 1First Incursion: Artistry and Authorship 19Second Incursion: The Dangers of Art and the Trap of the Visual 33Third Incursion: To See the Frame that Blinds Us 52Fourth Incursion: Deconstructing the Agencies of Art 74Fifth Incursion: Intersections of the Local and the Global 94Sixth Incursion: Into the Breach of Art and Religion 121SeventhIncursion: The Art of Commodifying Artistry 142Index 165
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-5430-0
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 124
- Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés