Pasztory, Esther.
Thinking with things toward a new vision of art / [electronic resource] : Esther Pasztory. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005. - 252 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.
Part one. Introduction to part one -- 1. Things -- 2. Thinking with things -- 3. Levels of social integration -- 4. Insistence -- 5. Superpositions -- 6. Impersonation -- 7. Enhancement -- 8. Apotheosis -- 9. Iconoclasm/aestheticism -- 10. Media/marginalization -- 11. Transition -- Bibliography to part one -- Part two. Introduction to part two : confessions of a formalist -- 12. Still invisible : the problems of the aesthetics of abstraction for pre-Columbian art and its implications for other cultures -- 13. Identity and difference : the uses and meanings of ethnic styles -- 14. The portrait and the mask : invention and translation -- 15. Aesthetics and pre-Columbian art -- 16. Andean aesthetics -- 17. Three Aztec masks of the God Xipe -- 18. Shamanism and North American Indian art -- Index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Art--Philosophy.
Art and society.
Art and anthropology.
Cognition--Social aspects.
Indian art.
Electronic books.
N66 / .P37 2005eb
701
Thinking with things toward a new vision of art / [electronic resource] : Esther Pasztory. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005. - 252 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.
Part one. Introduction to part one -- 1. Things -- 2. Thinking with things -- 3. Levels of social integration -- 4. Insistence -- 5. Superpositions -- 6. Impersonation -- 7. Enhancement -- 8. Apotheosis -- 9. Iconoclasm/aestheticism -- 10. Media/marginalization -- 11. Transition -- Bibliography to part one -- Part two. Introduction to part two : confessions of a formalist -- 12. Still invisible : the problems of the aesthetics of abstraction for pre-Columbian art and its implications for other cultures -- 13. Identity and difference : the uses and meanings of ethnic styles -- 14. The portrait and the mask : invention and translation -- 15. Aesthetics and pre-Columbian art -- 16. Andean aesthetics -- 17. Three Aztec masks of the God Xipe -- 18. Shamanism and North American Indian art -- Index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Art--Philosophy.
Art and society.
Art and anthropology.
Cognition--Social aspects.
Indian art.
Electronic books.
N66 / .P37 2005eb
701