The traffic in culture : refiguring art and anthropology / edited by George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers.
"The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and the...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- 1. The Traffic in Art and Culture: An Introduction
- 2. Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings
- 3. From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis: The Discourses and Practices of World Music and World Beat
- 4. Three Walls: Regional Aesthetics and the International Art World
- 5. The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market
- 6. The Patronage of Difference: Making Indian Art "Art, Not Ethnology"
- 7. The Power of Contemporary Work in an American Art Tradition to Illuminate its Own Power Relations
- 8. Confusing Pleasures
- 9. Inside Trading: Postmodernism and the Social Drama of Sunflowers in the 1980s Art World
- 10. The Artist as Ethnographer?
- 11. The Female Aesthetic Community
- 12. Four Essays on Art, Sexuality, and Cultural Politics
- List of Contributors
- Index.