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GELL, Alfred. Art and Agency: an anthropological theory.

Oxford: Clarendon Press,


1998.

 The reception of the art of particular periods in the history of Western art was
dependent on how the art was ‘seen’ at the time, and that ‘ways of seeing’
change over time; (p. 02)
 Aesthetics judgments are only interior mental acts; art objects, on the other
hand, are produced and circulated in the external physical and social world.
This production and circulation has to be sustained by certain social processes
of an objective kind, which are connected to other social processes (exchange,
politics, religion, kinship, etc.); (p. 03)
 (…) anthropological theory of ‘aesthetics’ (…) would try to explain why social
agents, in particular settings, produce the responses that they do to particular
works of art; (p. 04)
 I view art as a system of action, intended to change the world (…), it is
preoccupied with the practical mediatory role of art objects in the social
process; (p. 06)
 (…) the nature of the art object is a function of the social-relational matrix in
which it is embedded; (p. 07)
 Art objects are the equivalent of persons, or more precisely, social agents; (p.
07)
 Art is produced as a by-product of the medium of social life and the existence
of institutions of a more general purpose kind; (p. 08)
 The production and circulation of art objects are a function of any relational
context; (p. 11).

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