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Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome, and Mayan, as well as the modern Western world Features an introductory essay by leading experts, which helps clarify issues in the field Includes numerous illustrations
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Osborne / Art’s Agency and Art History 1405135379_1_pretoc Final Proof page i 23.1.2007 3:05pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradaban Art’s Agency and Art History Osborne / Art’s Agency and Art History 1405135379_1_pretoc Final Proof page ii 23.1.2007 3:05pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradaban New Interventions in Art History Series editor : Dana Arnold, University of Southampton New Interventions in Art History is a series of textbook mini-companions – published in connection with the Association of Art Historians – that aims to provide innovative approaches to, and new perspectives on, the study of art history. Each volume focuses on a specific area of the discipline of art history – here used in the broadest sense to include painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic arts, and film – and aims to identify the key factors that have shaped the artistic phenomenon under scrutiny. Particular attention is paid to the social and political context and the historiography of the artistic cultures or movements under review. In this way, the essays that comprise each volume cohere around the central theme while providing insights into the broader problematics of a given historical moment. Art and Thought edited by Dana Arnold and Margaret Iversen (published) Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium edited by Andrew McClellan (published) Architectures: Modernism and After edited by Andrew Ballantyne (published) After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance edited by Gavin Butt (published) Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image edited by Sam Smiles and Stephanie Moser (published) Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture edited by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts (published) Psychoanalysis and the Image edited by Griselda Pollock (published) Museums After Modernism edited by Griselda Pollock and Joyce Zemans (published) Material Identities edited by Joanna Sofaer (published) Art’s Agency and Art History edited by Robin Osborne and Jeremy Tanner (published) Exhibition Experiments edited by Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu (forthcoming) Pop Culture and Post-war American Taste edited by Patricia Morton (forthcoming) Osborne / Art’s Agency and Art History 1405135379_1_pretoc Final Proof page iii 23.1.2007 3:05pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradaban Art’s Agency and Art History Edited by Robin Osborne and Jeremy Tanner Osborne / Art’s Agency and Art History 1405135379_1_pretoc Final Proof page iv 23.1.2007 3:05pm Compositor Name: PDjeapradaban ß 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization ß 2007 Robin Osborne and Jeremy Tanner BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Robin Osborne and Jeremy Tanner to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,