Overview

Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues, which the authors explore in depth for the first time. The book presents a strong argument for encouraging artists and anthropologists to learn directly from each other's practices 'in the field'. It goes beyond the so-called 'ethnographic turn' of much contemporary art and the 'crisis of representation' in anthropology, in productively exploring the implications of the new anthropology of the senses, and ethical issues, for future art-anthropology collaborations. The contributors to this exciting volume consider the work of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Suzanne Lacy, Marcus Coates, Cameron Jamie, and Mohini Chandra. With cutting-edge essays from a range of key thinkers such as acclaimed art critic Lucy R. Lippard, and distinguished anthropologists George E. Marcus and Steve Feld, Between Art and Anthropology will be essential reading for students, artists and scholars across a number of fields.

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Author:   Arnd Schneider ,  Christopher Wright
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781847885012

ISBN 10:   1847885012
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   01 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Between Art and Anthropology Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo) & Chris Wright (Goldsmiths College) 2 Farther Afield Lucy R. Lippard (independent scholar) 3 The Artist as Shaman: the work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates Victoria Walters (University of Ulster) 4 Hearing Faces, Seeing Voices: Sound Art, Experimentalism and the Ethnographic Gaze John Wynne (University of the Arts/London College of Communication) 5 In the Thick of It: Notes on Observation and Context Christopher Wright (Goldsmiths College) 6 Fieldwork Tatsuo Inagaki (independent artist) 7 Affinities: Fieldwork in Anthropology Today and the Ethnographic in Artwork George E. Marcus (University of California, Irvine) 8 Show and Tell: Weaving a Basket of Knowledge Amiria Salmond (University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Rosanna Raymond (artist) 9 Tracing Histories Mohini Chandra (artist) & Rebecca Empson (Cambridge University) 10 Collaborative Migrations: Contemporary Art in/as Anthropology Steven Feld, in conversation with Virginia Ryan 11 Making Art Ethnography: Painting, War and Ethnographic Practice Susan Ossman (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 12 Cultural Knowledge on Display: Chinese and Haudenosaunee Fieldnotes Morgan Perkins (SUNY Potsdam) 13 Making Do: the Materials of Art and Anthropology Anna Grimshaw (Emory University), Elspeth Owen, Amanda Ravetz (Manchester Metropolitan University) Notes

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Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice. Between Art and Anthropology will be essential reading for students, artists and scholars across a number of fields. visualanthropology.net With cutting-edge essays from a range of key thinkers such as acclaimed art critic Lucy R. Lippard, and distinguished anthropologists George E. Marcus and Steve Feld, this book will be essential reading for students, artists and scholars across a number of fields. The Times Literary Supplement

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Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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