Art Beyond Itself Anthropology for a Society Without a Story Line
Art beyond Itself
Anthropology for a Guild without a Story Line
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Pages: 240
Illustrations: 22 illustrations Published: May 2014
Subjects
Anthropology > Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Art and Visual Civilization > Art Criticism and Theory
Starting time published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary fine art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the identify of imminence, the place where nosotros glimpse something only well-nigh to happen. All the same, every bit he demonstrates, defining contemporary fine art and its part in society is an ever more complicated endeavour. Museums, auction houses, artists, and major actors in economic science, politics, and the media are increasingly chummy and interdependent. Fine art is expanding into urban development and the design and tourism industries. Art practices based on objects are displaced past practices based on contexts. Aesthetic distinctions dissolve every bit artworks are inserted into the media, urban spaces, digital networks, and social forums. Oppositional artists are afloat in a society without a clear story line. What, subsequently all, counts as transgression in a globe of diverse and bitty narratives? Seeking a new analytic framework for understanding contemporary art, García Canclini is attentive to particular artworks; to artists including Francis Alÿs, León Ferrari, Teresa Margolles, Antoni Muntadas, and Gabriel Orozco; and to efforts to preserve, for art and artists, some caste of independence from organized religion, politics, the media, and the market place.
Praise
"García Canclini'south transdisciplinary theorizing might about fruitfully exist read as a timely call for further empirical enquiry on the social, cultural, and political implications of contemporary art." — Christopher Michael Fraga, Periodical of Latin American Anthropology
"Néstor García Canclini's Art beyond Itself is an add-on to the literature that believes that art and artistic movements may exist understood 'only in connexion with social processes' (p. xi). It examines how artistic projects become part of other logics (e.thousand., the market, the media, politics, social movements) and how fine art is modified in the process." — Nigel Rapport, American Anthropologist
"Garcia Canclini'due south insightful study crosses disciplinary divides and hence volition appeal to scholars in the social sciences and humanities from a wide range of academic backgrounds. Anthropologists, sociologists, art historians and cultural critics, specially those focused on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, accept much to gain from reading this book. Literary critics, historians, philosophers and economists whose interests remainder in contemporary aesthetics and the art market will besides find value in this study." — Resha Cardone, The Latin Americanist
"Art Beyond Itself...probes fine art's struggles to redefine itself in a globalized world in which previously detached categories of aesthetic and social experience are ever more than blurred. With this volume García Canclini, ane of Latin America's foremost intellectuals, both expands his already considerable presence for English-speaking audiences and provides a powerful new belittling approach to contemporary art." — Robin Adèle Greeley, Critical Inquiry
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Néstor García Canclini is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in United mexican states Urban center. Born in Argentine republic, he has lived in Mexico for many years. He is an anthropologist and cultural critic originally trained as a philosopher. Among the many books that he has written, those bachelor in English language are Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Inbound and Leaving Modernity, Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflict, Transforming Modernity: Popular Civilization in Mexico, and Imagined Globalization, which is published by Duke University Press.
Illustrations 9
Preface. Art beyond Itself xi
Acknowledgments xxv
1. Aesthetics and Social Sciences: Converging Doubts 1
three. Reappropriating Objects: Art, Marketing, or Civilization? 59
4. Putting a Value on Art: Betwixt the Market and Politics 83
5. Unsure Localizations 101
half dozen. The Death of Public Infinite: Survival Tactics 129
seven. How Society Makes Fine art 151
Epilogue 175
Works Cited 187
Alphabetize 197
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Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-5623-3
/ Textile ISBN: 978-0-8223-5609-vii
Source: https://www.dukeupress.edu/art-beyond-itself/
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