Art's agency and art history
By: edited by Robin Osborne and Jeremy Tanner.
Contributors: Osborne, Robin.; Tanner, Jeremy, 1963-
Series: New interventions in art history
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781405135375; 9781405135382
Subjects: Art and anthropology; Art -- Historiography; Art and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: art and agency and art history / Jeremy Tanner and Robin Osborne; title: Enchantment and sacrifice in early Egypt / David Wengrow; title: Agency marked, agency ascribed: the affective object in ancient Mesopotamia / Irene J. Winter; title: Portraits and agency: a comparative view / Jeremy Tanner; title: The agency of, and the agency for, the Wanli Emperor / Jessica Rawson; title: The material efficacy of the Elizabethan jeweled miniature: a Gellian experiment / Jessen Kelly; title: Representational art in ancient Peru and the work of Alfred Gell / Jeffrey Quilter; title: Gell's idols and Roman cult / Peter Stewart; title: Sex, agency, and history: the case of Athenian painted pottery / Robin Osborne; title: Abducting the agency of art / Whitney Davis.