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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Anthropology of art"”.
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The Shape of Kubler: George A. Kubler in Peru, 1948-49
Yale art history professor George Kubler’s seminal 1962 publication The Shape of Time is, according to his own words, representative of a “crossroads between the history and anthropology of art.” This work does not stand alone, but is rather part of a larger corpus of study through which Kubler …
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No curso da pintura: a produção de identidades de artista
… an institution for the teaching and production of contemporary art. Contemporary painting is seen here as a social practice, placed by the social actors as continuous or as incompatible with other social practices. The acquisition of the dispositions which permit, or don’t permit, the practice …
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Envisioning Citizenship: Photographic Practice and Human Rights Activism in Contemporary Argentina
This thesis is a study of the visual culture of human rights movements in Argentina in the twenty- first century, looking specifically at the mobilisation of photography by activists. In each chapter, I cover different human rights organisations: collectives that respond to the country’s …
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The making of art: sculptors, artisans, and artists in the Apuan Alps
… in the Apuan Alps and its relation to claims of artistic value. For centuries, this Italian district has specialized in extracting, marketing, and processing marble into luxury commodities. Ahead of many other parts of this economy (including design and architecture), art manufacturing has …
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Un/Contemporary Arts: Norms and Forms in a Greek Art School
This dissertation addresses the fine arts education system in Athens, as I follow my interlocutors, students, educators and working artists over nineteen months of fieldwork. Greece is one of a few countries in the world in which aspirants need to compete in a live drawing exam in nineteenth- …