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Preziosi Donald <1941-> |
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Art is not what you think it is [[electronic resource] /] / Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago |
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Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
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1-4443-5428-0 |
1-4443-5430-2 |
1-299-31374-4 |
1-4443-5427-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is; Contents; List of Figures; Preface: Art Is Not What You Think It Is; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Art and/as Manifesto; First Incursion: Artistry and Authorship; Second Incursion: The Dangers of Art and the Trap of the Visual; Third Incursion: To See the Frame that Blinds Us; Fourth Incursion: Deconstructing the Agencies of Art; Fifth Incursion: Intersections of the Local and the Global; Sixth Incursion: Into the Breach of Art and Religion; Seventh Incursion: The Art of Commodifying Artistry; Index |
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"Few phenomena in our lives are as inescapable as what we commonly refer to as art--yet few concepts are more elusive than the idea of art itself. So what does 'art' look like today? And what is its fate? Art Is Not What You Think It Is offers a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art--making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Revealing how conventional thinking about art is largely based on misconceptions about its history, Preziosi and Farago call for a radical rethink of the subject and its relationship to a wide swath of today's world--from religion and philosophy to culture and politics. The authors probe a variety of issues, including the dangers of art and trap of the visual; the frame that blinds us; deconstruction of the agencies of art; the |
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