Art's Agency and Art History

Art's Agency and Art History throws the subject of the anthropology of art into brilliant and much-needed relief, by re-articulating its relationships to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. Using Alfred Gell's influential work as a touchstone, the book showcases nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists. Following an accessible introductory overview, the collection explores concepts and perspectives in a wide range of contexts, ranging from such cultures as Bronze Age China and Mesopotamia to those of Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, the Classic Maya and finally of the modern western world.

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge. He writes widely across the range of Greek history, Greek archaeology, and Classical art history. He is the author of Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) and of Greek History (2004).

Jeremy Tanner is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where he teaches Classical archaeology and comparative art. He is the editor of The Sociology of Art: a Reader (2003), and the author of The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation (2006)

Series Editor's Preface	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: Art and Agency and Art History	p. 1
Enchantment and Sacrifice in Early Egypt	p. 28
Agency Marked, Agency Ascribed: The Affective Object in Ancient Mesopotamia	p. 42
Portraits and Agency: A Comparative View	p. 70
The Agency of, and the Agency for, the Wanli Emperor	p. 95
The Material Efficacy of the Elizabethan Jeweled Miniature: a Gellian Experiment	p. 114
Representational Art in Ancient Peru and the Work of Alfred Gell	p. 135
Gell's Idols and Roman Cult	p. 158
Sex, Agency, and History: The Case of Athenian Painted Pottery	p. 179
Abducting the Agency of Art	p. 199
Index	p. 220
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