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Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art
Esther Pasztory
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Description for Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art
Paperback. Offers a way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it. This book asserts that humans create things in order to work out ideas. It draws on examples from several societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. It is intended for those who creates or thinks about works of art. Num Pages: 264 pages, 145 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 278 x 15. Weight in Grams: 874.
What is art ? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works of art? Is there any way of defining art that can encompass everything from Paleolithic objects to the virtual images created by the latest computer technology? Questions such as these have preoccupied Esther Pasztory since the beginning of her scholarly career. In this authoritative volume, she distills four decades of research and reflection to propose a pathbreaking new way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it that can be applied to all cultures throughout ... Read more
What is art ? Why have human societies through all time and around the globe created those objects we call works of art? Is there any way of defining art that can encompass everything from Paleolithic objects to the virtual images created by the latest computer technology? Questions such as these have preoccupied Esther Pasztory since the beginning of her scholarly career. In this authoritative volume, she distills four decades of research and reflection to propose a pathbreaking new way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it that can be applied to all cultures throughout ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292706910
SKU
V9780292706910
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About Esther Pasztory
ESTHER PASZTORY is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
Reviews for Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art
As a major scholar of Meso-American art, Pasztory has written a valuable and substantive text.
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