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BL
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626499
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| Main Entry
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Pasztory, Esther
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| Title & Author
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Thinking with things : : toward a new vision of art /\ Esther Pasztory
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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Austin :: University of Texas Press,, 2005
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252 p. :: ill. ;; 29 cm
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0292765975
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: 029270691X
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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Pasztory's thesis is simple and asserts that humans create things (some of which modern Western society chooses to call "art") in order to work out ideas - that is, literally think with things. Pasztory draws on examples from many societies to argue that the art-making impulse is primarily cognitive and only secondarily aesthetic. She demonstrates that "art" always reflects the specific social context in which it is created, and that as societies become more complex, their art becomes more rarefied. -- Dustjacket
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Art-- Philosophy
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Art and society
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Art and anthropology
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Cognition-- Social aspects
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Indian art
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| LC Classification
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N66.P37 2005
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