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""Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics"" is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal brings together, in an anthropological perspective, contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. ""Res"" also publishes textual and iconographic documents important to the history and theory of the arts.

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Author:   Francesco Pellizzi
Publisher:   Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Imprint:   Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Volume:   51
Dimensions:   Width: 21.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 27.30cm
Weight:   0.802kg
ISBN:  

9780873657754

ISBN 10:   0873657756
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 June 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Michael W. Meister, Image iconopraxis and iconoplasty in South Asia; Michele Matteini, The body as object: A case study on the true body of Huineng (638-713) and Chan/Zen Buddhist religious practice; Ladislav Kesner, Face as artifact in early Chinese art; Yukio Lippit, Sotatsu and the watery poetics of ink painting; Xavier Urcid, Oracles and warfare: The role of carved monuments in the early development of Monte Alban (400-200 B.C.); Anna Anquissola, Retaining the function: Sacred copies in Greek and Roman art; Bissera Pentcheva, The energy of the relic versus the artifice of the container; Friedrich T. Bach, Brunelleschi - Manetto/Matteo: Central perspective and anthropological experiment; Daniel Sherer, Mysteries of perspective and mysteries of state: Anamorphosis and the king's two bodies in Holbein's Ambassadors; Noga Arikha, Opaque humors, enlightened emotions, and the transparent mind; Erika Naginski, Building on history: Piranesi and Vico; Haim Finkelstein, Screen and layered depth: Surrealist painting and the conceptualization of mental space; Nuit Banai, Between republic and regime: Abstraction and democracy in Yves Klein's The Void. Documents and Discussions; Laura Ilea, The hermeneutics of the artwork and the end of the age of nostalgia: From oblivion of being (Heidegger) to its enhancement (Gadamer). Commentary by Remo Guidieri.

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Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

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