LEADER 03465nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910819903703321 005 20240416150929.0 010 $a0-674-04421-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674044210 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786790 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158504 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149691 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158504 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10145544 035 $a(PQKB)10259854 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300357 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318347 035 $a(OCoLC)923110835 035 $a(DE-B1597)574318 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674044210 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300357 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786790 100 $a20040218d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFriends of interpretable objects /$fMiguel Tamen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA ;$aLondon $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00646-1 311 $a0-674-01368-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tCONTENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $t1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS -- $t2 ICONOCLASM -- $t3 PRESERVATION -- $t4 PERSONS -- $t5 RIGHTS -- $t6 BODIES -- $t7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION -- $t8 DEFERENCE -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX 330 $aMiguel 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. 330 $bA 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. 606 $aInterpretation (Philosophy) 606 $aAnthropomorphism 615 0$aInterpretation (Philosophy) 615 0$aAnthropomorphism. 676 $a121.68 700 $aTamen$b Miguel$0678339 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819903703321 996 $aFriends of interpretable objects$94093916 997 $aUNINA