García Canclini Art beyond Itself

Anthropology for a Society without a Story Line
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7697-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic 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 degree of independence from religion, politics, the media, and the market.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García Canclini, Néstor

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frye, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Preface. Art beyond Itself xi

Acknowledgments xxv

1. Aesthetics and Social Sciences: Converging Doubts 1

3. Reappropriating Objects: Art, Marketing, or Culture? 59

4. Putting a Value on Art: Between the Market and Politics 83

5. Unsure Localizations 101

6. The Death of Public Space: Survival Tactics 129

7. How Society Makes Art 151

Epilogue 175

Works Cited 187

Index 197

Über Autor(innen)

Néstor García Canclini is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. Born in Argentina, 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 available in English are Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity, Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflict, Transforming Modernity: Popular Culture in Mexico, and Imagined Globalization, which is published by Duke University Press.