Thinking with things [electronic resource] : toward a new vision of art / Esther Pasztory.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: 252 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 701 22
LOC classification:
  • N66 .P37 2005eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.

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.

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