Between Art And Anthropology

International Thu 05-08-2010

Between Art And Anthropology
By a Correspondent

Between Art and Anthropology provides new and challenging arguments for considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice.

Artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues, which the authors explore in depth for the first time.

Between Art And Anthropology | The Book Cover

The book presents a strong argument for encouraging artists and anthropologists to learn directly from each other's practices 'in the field'.

It goes beyond the so-called 'ethnographic turn' of much contemporary art and the 'crisis of representation' in anthropology, in productively exploring the implications of the new anthropology of the senses, and ethical issues, for future art-anthropology collaborations.

The contributors to this exciting volume consider the work of artists such as Joseph Beuys, Suzanne Lacy, Marcus Coates, Cameron Jamie, and Mohini Chandra.

With cutting-edge essays from a range of key thinkers such as acclaimed art critic Lucy R. Lippard, and distinguished anthropologists George E. Marcus and Steve Feld, Between Art and Anthropology will be essential reading for students, artists and scholars across a number of fields.

About the editors

Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Christopher Wright is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Content:

1. Between Art and Anthropology

Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo) & Chris Wright (Goldsmiths College)

2. Farther Afield

Lucy R. Lippard (independent scholar)

3. The Artist as Shaman: the work of Joseph Beuys and Marcus Coates

Victoria Walters (University of Ulster)

4. Hearing Faces, Seeing Voices: Sound Art, Experimentalism and the Ethnographic Gaze

John Wynne (University of the Arts/London College of Communication)

5. In the Thick of It: Notes on Observation and Context

Christopher Wright (Goldsmiths College)

6. Fieldwork

Tatsuo Inagaki (independent artist)

7. Affinities: Fieldwork in Anthropology Today and the Ethnographic in Artwork

George E. Marcus (University of California, Irvine)

8. Show and Tell: Weaving a Basket of Knowledge

Amiria Salmond (University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Rosanna Raymond (artist)

9. Tracing Histories

Mohini Chandra (artist) & Rebecca Empson (Cambridge University)

10 Collaborative Migrations: Contemporary Art in/as Anthropology

Steven Feld in conversation with Virginia Ryan (independent artist)

11. Making Art Ethnography: Painting, War and Ethnographic Practice

Susan Ossman (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

12. Cultural Knowledge on Display: Chinese and Haudenosaunee Fieldnotes

Morgan Perkins (SUNY Potsdam)

13. Making Do: the Materials of Art and Anthropology

Anna Grimshaw (Emory University), Elspeth Owen, Amanda Ravetz (Manchester Metropolitan University)

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