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Author García Canclini, Néstor, author

Title Art beyond itself : anthropology for a society without a story line / Nestor García Canclini ; translated by David Frye
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 201 pages) : illustrations
Contents Aesthetics and Social Sciences: converging doubts -- Visual cultures: between art and heritage -- Reappropriating objects: art, marketing, or culture? -- Putting a value on art: between the market and politics -- Unsure localizations -- The death of public space: survival tactics -- How society makes art
Summary First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic is attentive to particular artworks; to artists including Francis Alÿs, León Ferrari, Teresa Margolles, Antoni Muntadas, and Gabriel Orozco; and to efforts to preserve, for art and artists, some degree of independence from religion, politics, the media, and the market
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) index
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Subject Art and society.
Art and anthropology.
Postmodernism.
Aesthetics, Modern -- 21st century.
Aesthetics, Modern.
ART -- General.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Aesthetics, Modern
Art and anthropology
Art and society
Postmodernism
Form Electronic book
Author Frye, David L., translator
ISBN 9780822376972
0822376970
Other Titles Sociedad sin relato. English