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In the 1920s and 1930s, anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms which it could take. This book examines the impact of these emergent disciplines on the artistic avant-garde in Paris. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African or Oceanic sculpture. The author reveals how anthropological approaches to this intriguing material began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics, and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as "art," "artefacts," or "ethnographic evidence." This book analyzes texts, photographs, and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar to Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadéro Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotaure. Through its interdisciplinary and contextual approach, it provides an important corrective to histories of modern art and the European avant-garde.
This book examines the impact of the emergent discipline of ethnography upon the artistic avant-garde in 1920s and 1930s Paris. This book demonstrates this with reference to the sculptoral work of Giacometti and Picasso in the early 1930s and the rise of the surrealist object. This book reveals how antrhopological approaches began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence.' It analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar-Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadero Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotarue. It brings out the contribution of figures such as Michel Leiris, Marcel Mauss, Marcel Briaule and Georges Henri Riviere to this radical ferment of ideas at a particular moment in French intellectual history. -- Dust Jacket.
This book examines the impact of the emergent discipline of ethnography upon the artistic avant-garde in 1920s and 1930s Paris. This book demonstrates this with reference to the sculptoral work of Giacometti and Picasso in the early1930s and the rise of the surrealist object. This book reveals how antrhopological approaches began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changingstatus as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence.' It analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar-Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadero Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documentsand Minotarue. It brings out the contribution of figures such as Michel Leiris, Marcel Mauss, Marcel Briaule and Georges Henri Riviere to this radical ferment of ideas at a particular moment in French intellectual history. -- Dust Jacket.
This book examines the impact of the emergent discipline of ethnography upon the artistic avant-garde in 1920s and 1930s Paris. This book demonstrates this with reference to the sculptoral work of Giacometti and Picasso in the early1930s and the rise of the surrealist object. This book reveals how antrhopological approaches began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changingstatus as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence.' It analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar-Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadero Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documentsand Minotarue. It brings out the contribution of figures such as Michel Leiris, Marcel Mauss, Marcel Briaule and Georges Henri Riviere to this radical ferment of ideas at a particular moment in French intellectual history. -- Dust Jacket.
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaborations, the opportunity to use exhibitions as research devices, and the role of experimentation in the exhibition process. Francisco Martínez increases our understanding of the relationship between contemporary art, design and anthropology, imagining creative ways to engage with the contemporary world and developing research infrastructures across disciplines. He opens up a vast field of methodological explorations, providing a language to reconsider ethnography and objecthood while producing knowledge with people of different backgrounds.
In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums. Penny shows that German ethnologists were not driven by imperialist desires or an interest in legitimating putative biological or racial hierarchies. Overwhelmingly antiracist, they aspired to generate theories about the essential nature of human beings through their museums' collections. They gained support in their efforts from boosters who were enticed by participating in this international science and who used it to promote the cosmopolitan character of their cities and themselves. But these cosmopolitan ideals were eventually overshadowed by the scientists' more modern, professional, and materialist concerns, which dramatically altered the science and its goals. By clarifying German ethnologists' aspirations and focusing on the market and conflicting interest groups, Penny makes important contributions to German history, the history of science, and museum studies.
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaborations, the opportunity to use exhibitions as research devices, and the role of experimentation in the exhibition process.Francisco Martínez increases our understanding of the relationship between contemporary art, design and anthropology, imagining creative ways to engage with the contemporary world and developing research infrastructures across disciplines. He opens up a vast field of methodological explorations, providing a language to reconsider ethnography and objecthood while producing knowledge with people of different backgrounds.
This book presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on research from the interdisciplinary TRACES project (funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program). The case studies in this volume critically assess how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of the book is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials, and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity.
Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself. Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John Mowitt, Pooja Rangan, Gavin Steingo, James A. Steintrager, Jonathan Sterne, David Toop