| Description |
1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Gell and his influences -- The object in its multiplicity -- Summary of chapters -- Part I Rethinking the frame -- 1 Lessons from the art nexus -- The nexus -- Abduction -- Agent-patient relations -- Immanent relations of the object -- Rokeby Venus -- 'Nkisi nail fetish -- Temporalities of the index -- Summary -- 2 The index and indexicality -- The sign -- The deictic and causal sign -- Circulating indices: Kula exchange -- Summary |
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3 The prototype and the model -- The loom -- The mind and the material -- Australian Aboriginal art -- Summary -- 4 Immanent relationality and its consequences -- Ancestral water -- Representation -- Relational immanence -- Models as immanent -- Summary -- Part II Following the prototype -- 5 Virtuosity and style -- Virtuosity -- Technique -- Style and self-referentiality -- Summary -- 6 Aesthetics and the ethics of relation -- The science of sensible cognition -- The 'work' of aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the rejection of the viewer -- Aesthetic work of replication -- Summary |
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7 Generativity and transformation -- Grammar and message -- Icon as interface -- Poetics and dynamism of form -- Ida as transformation -- Person as artefactual -- Changing the grammar: metacode -- Summary -- 8 Agency (social) -- Agency -- Value transformation -- Rubbish art -- Circulating impossibilities -- Circulating possibilities -- Summary -- Part III Rediscovering the object -- 9 Material agency -- Stickiness -- Material affordances -- Surfaces -- Transformative material substances -- Summary -- 10 Colour, palette, and gestalt -- Colour as movement -- Not all reds are created equal |
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Smelling and healing green -- Gestalt -- Indigo -- Summary -- 11 Patterns and their transposition -- Tattoos -- Cognitive spatialisation -- Navigating as pattern recognition -- Ka Mate, Ka Ora -- Summary -- 12 Motile animacy -- From substitution to sequence -- Analogical qualisigns -- Movement and materialisation -- The autonomous voice -- Canons and fugues -- Summary -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carroll, Timothy
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| ISBN |
9781000182347 |
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1000182347 |
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