Alfred (Antony Francis) Gell (June 12, 1945-January 28, 1997): British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. Gell is considered one of the most gifted anthropologists of his generation. He as a student studied with Edmund Leach (MPhil, Cambridge University) and Raymond Firth (PhD, London School of Economics). He did his fieldwork in Melanesia and tribal India. He was Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was a fellow of the British Academy. The School posthumously awarded him a Professorship, a post that he had declined during his life time.
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This book changes the very basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. It presents what is the first fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. Its publication is a major event. Maurice Bloch, FBA, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics. This is a remarkable work ... witty, elegant, broad in its compass and scintillating in its detail. It is characteristically polemical ... alive with his sense of purpose and his quite original and captivating account of how we are captivated by relations between forms ... The book know what to do with the limits of form--one suddenly sees how anthropology might surpass itself. Marilyn Strathern, FBA, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge An extraordinary achievement. Gell offers a profound new understanding of collective agency which completely reshapes the anthropology of art, redefines its objects of study, and inspires new conclusions. Caroline Humphrey, Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge
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"[This] is not only a contribution to anthropology but a subtle and original counterweight to the banalities of globalization theory."--Times Literary Supplement
發表於2024-05-18
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先避開這個有標新立異之嫌的標題,說說Gell和本書不得不說的故事。 正如Gell的妻子Simeran在開篇所說,Art and Agency的最後一章是Gell在知道自己得瞭不治之癥之後寫下的,而之前的第一稿是Gell在1996年復活節為期三周的假期中寫就的,在得知時日不多之後,Gell開始抓緊修改潤...
評分先避開這個有標新立異之嫌的標題,說說Gell和本書不得不說的故事。 正如Gell的妻子Simeran在開篇所說,Art and Agency的最後一章是Gell在知道自己得瞭不治之癥之後寫下的,而之前的第一稿是Gell在1996年復活節為期三周的假期中寫就的,在得知時日不多之後,Gell開始抓緊修改潤...
評分先避開這個有標新立異之嫌的標題,說說Gell和本書不得不說的故事。 正如Gell的妻子Simeran在開篇所說,Art and Agency的最後一章是Gell在知道自己得瞭不治之癥之後寫下的,而之前的第一稿是Gell在1996年復活節為期三周的假期中寫就的,在得知時日不多之後,Gell開始抓緊修改潤...
評分先避開這個有標新立異之嫌的標題,說說Gell和本書不得不說的故事。 正如Gell的妻子Simeran在開篇所說,Art and Agency的最後一章是Gell在知道自己得瞭不治之癥之後寫下的,而之前的第一稿是Gell在1996年復活節為期三周的假期中寫就的,在得知時日不多之後,Gell開始抓緊修改潤...
評分先避開這個有標新立異之嫌的標題,說說Gell和本書不得不說的故事。 正如Gell的妻子Simeran在開篇所說,Art and Agency的最後一章是Gell在知道自己得瞭不治之癥之後寫下的,而之前的第一稿是Gell在1996年復活節為期三周的假期中寫就的,在得知時日不多之後,Gell開始抓緊修改潤...
圖書標籤: 人類學 藝術史 藝術人類學 anthropology 藝術 Gell 文藝理論 藝術史
Agency is dead
評分A purely cultural, aesthetic, 'appreciative' approach to art objects is an anthropological dead end.
評分Agency is dead
評分A purely cultural, aesthetic, 'appreciative' approach to art objects is an anthropological dead end.
評分屌爆瞭,這文筆簡直神一般。要是他還在世,爬都要爬去LSE當他學生。 三年後補的:成為瞭徒孫哈哈哈哈哈,比以前又瞭解得多瞭些。
Art and Agency 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載