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Thinking with things : toward a new vision of art / Esther Pasztory

Author
Pasztory, Esther
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

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Contents
Part one. Introduction to part one -- 1. Things -- 2. Thinking with things -- 3. Levels of social integration -- 4. Insistence -- 5. Superpositions -- 6. Impersonation -- 7. Enhancement -- 8. Apotheosis -- 9. Iconoclasm/aestheticism -- 10. Media/marginalization -- 11. Transition -- Bibliography to part one -- Part two. Introduction to part two: confessions of a formalist -- 12. Still invisible -- 13. Identity and difference -- 14. The portrait and the mask -- 15. Aesthetics and pre-Columbian art -- 16. Andean aesthetics -- 17. Three Aztec masks of the God Xipe -- 18. Shamanism and North American Indian art -- Index.
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ISBN
0292765975 (hardcover : alk. paper)
029270691X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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