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Author Pasztory, Esther.

Title Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art / Esther Pasztory.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  N66 .P37 2005    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Art -- Philosophy.
Art -- Philosophy.
Art and society.
Art and society.
Art and anthropology.
Art and anthropology.
Cognition -- Social aspects.
Cognition -- Social aspects.
Indian art.
Indian art.
ISBN 029270691X paperback alkaline paper
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