The Trouble with Art. An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism (Routledge, 2024)
edited with Roger Sansi (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)
Short description
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.
The book marks the founding of the Anthropology and the Arts Network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) founded by Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius.
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https://www.routledge.com/The-Trouble-With-Art-An-Anthropology-Beyond-Philistinism/Sansi-Tinius/p/book/9781003283683
edited with Roger Sansi (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)
Short description
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.
The book marks the founding of the Anthropology and the Arts Network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) founded by Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius.
Get the book
https://www.routledge.com/The-Trouble-With-Art-An-Anthropology-Beyond-Philistinism/Sansi-Tinius/p/book/9781003283683