Alfred Gell: 2 books

Book cover of Art and Agency

Art and Agency

An Anthropological Theory

by Alfred Gell
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1998

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view,...
Book cover of Arte y agencia

Arte y agencia

Una teoría antropológica

by Alfred Gell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 14, 2016

¿Qué subyace al poder seductor del arte? En esta obra Alfred Gell propone una teoría que se aparta radicalmente de las interpretaciones anteriores. Critica que las teorías estéticas adopten una posición demasiado pasiva con respecto de los objetos y, en cambio, hace hincapié en el arte como...
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