In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and recepti

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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 t

This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. It makes a cri

This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays ta

Artists and creators in interactive art and interaction design have long been conducting research on human-machine interaction. Through artistic, conceptual, so

Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociolo

Text looks at questions raised by Alfred Gell's "Art and agency: an anthropological theory."

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged

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