Contemporary Art and Anthropology

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Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditionally, the anthropology of art has tended to focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts but has not considered the impact such art could have on its own ways of making and presenting work. The potential for the contemporary art scene to suggest innovative representational practices has been similarly ignored. This book challenges the reluctance that exists within anthropology to pursue alternative strategies of research, creation and exhibition, and argues that contemporary artists and anthropologists have much to learn from each others' practices. The contributors to this pioneering book consider the work of artists such as Susan Hiller, Francesco Clemente and Rimer Cardillo, and in exploring topics such as the possibility of shared representational values, aesthetics and modernity, and tattooing, they suggest productive new directions for practices in both fields. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1 The Challenge of Practice 2 Appropriations 3 Moon and Mother: Francesco Clemente’s Orient 4 Where Green Grass Comes to Meet Blue Sky: A Trajectory of Josef Šíma 5 Encounters with the Work of Susan Hiller 6 Reflections on Art and Agency: Knot-sculpture between Mathematics and Art 7 Artists in the Field: Between Art and Anthropology 8 Photographic Essay 9 Dialogues With Dave Lewis, Rainer Wittenborn, Claus Biegert, Nikolaus Lang and Rimer Cardillo 10 Travels in a New World: Work around a Diasporic Theme by Mohini Chandra 11 No Borders: The Ancient American Roots of Abstraction 12 Carlos Capelán: Our Modernity not Theirs 13 The Case of Tattooing Notes Index