TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pasztory,Esther
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Thinking with things: toward a new vision of art 
AV  - N66 .P37 2005eb
U1  - 701 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Art and anthropology
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Indian art
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10245677
ER  -