03465nam 2200601Ia 450 991081990370332120240416150929.00-674-04421-510.4159/9780674044210(CKB)1000000000786790(StDuBDS)AH23050919(SSID)ssj0000158504(PQKBManifestationID)11149691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158504(PQKBWorkID)10145544(PQKB)10259854(Au-PeEL)EBL3300357(CaPaEBR)ebr10318347(OCoLC)923110835(DE-B1597)574318(DE-B1597)9780674044210(MiAaPQ)EBC3300357(EXLCZ)99100000000078679020040218d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrFriends of interpretable objects /Miguel Tamen1st ed.Cambridge, MA ;London Harvard University Press20011 online resource (194 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-00646-1 0-674-01368-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS -- 2 ICONOCLASM -- 3 PRESERVATION -- 4 PERSONS -- 5 RIGHTS -- 6 BODIES -- 7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION -- 8 DEFERENCE -- NOTES -- INDEXMiguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation - notably, in our own culture, as they are housed in museums.A strikingly original work, Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of interpretation. Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society. As his work unfolds, "friends" also takes on a legal sense, as advocates, introduced to advance the argument that the social life of interpreted and interpretable objects engenders a related web of social obligations. Focusing on those who, through interpretation, make objects "speak" in settings as different as churches, museums, forests, and distant galaxies--those who know the best interests of corporations, endangered species, and works of art--Tamen exposes the common ground shared by art criticism, political science, tort law, and science. Learned and witty, with much to teach art historians, environmentalists, anthropologists, curators, and literary critics, his book utterly reorients our understanding of how we make sense of our world.Interpretation (Philosophy)AnthropomorphismInterpretation (Philosophy)Anthropomorphism.121.68Tamen Miguel678339MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819903703321Friends of interpretable objects4093916UNINA