Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration

Herausgeber: Carocci, Max; Pratt, Stephanie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cultures of the past. Bringing together art historians and anthropologists, it presents a selection of detailed case studies of various bodies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and from different time periods (from Native North America, Cameroon, and Nepal, to Italy, Solomon Islands, and Mexico) to explore the contemporary relevance and challenges implicit in artistic renditions of past peoples and places. In an age when identities are partially constructed on the basis of existing visual records, the book asks important questions about the nature of observation and the inclusion of culturally-relevant information in artistic representations. How reliable are watercolours, paintings, or sketches for the understanding of past ways of life? How do old images of bygone peoples relate to art historical and anthropological canons? How have these images and technologies of representation been used to describe, illustrate, or explain unknown realities? The book is an essential tool for art historians, anthropologists, and anyone who wants to understand how the observation of different realities has impacted upon the production of art and visual cultures. Incorporating current methodological and theoretical tools, the 10 chapters collected here expand the area of connection between the disciplines of art history and anthropology, bringing into sharp focus the multiple intersections of objectivity, evidence, and artistic licence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781350248434
• ISBN-10: 1350248436
• Artikelnr.: 63473984

Autorenporträt

Max Carocci is Adjunct Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Richmond American University in London. Stephanie Pratt is formerly Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Part I: Drawing as
Method 1: The question of expression when using art as a research method in
anthropology: notes for the anthropologist-artist Paola Tiné 2: Pictorial
Ethnographies of the Solomon Islands Ben Burt 3: "You have to be a
draughtsman to be an ethnographer!". The Legacy of Giuseppe "Bèpo" Sebesta
in Ethnographic Museography Giovanni Kezich and Antonella Mott Part II: The
Production of Indigenous Visual Knowledge 4: Pictorialization as resource
in the Cameroon Grassfield: Ibrahim Njoya's illustrations for the History
and Customs of the Bamum (1927-1930) Simon Dell 5: Owning the Image:
Indigenous children claim visual sovereignty far from home Jacqueline
Fear-Segal 6: Graphically speaking: the stories told by Northwest Coast
prints India Young Part III: Political Economies of Art 7: Ethnographic
study of 19th century Kathmandu through artworks Sanyukta Shrestha 8: Like
a porcupine: holy wounds in Spanish America Peter Mason 9: Art and the
limits of representation: Portraits and portrayals of Mid-western
Indigenous peoples in the early United States republic Stephanie Pratt 10:
Interpreting art and ethnography in George Catlin's Selection of Indian
Pipes Annika Johnson Index