240031 VO Introduction to the Anthropology of Art (3.3.6) (2021S)
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Sprache: Englisch
Prüfungstermine
Donnerstag
24.06.2021
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Freitag
15.10.2021
17:00 - 18:30
Digital
Montag
13.12.2021
17:00 - 18:30
Digital
Montag
24.01.2022
17:00 - 18:30
Digital
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
The course will start digital. If the Covid regulations allow it, it will change to on-site or hybrid.
Information about the lecture rooms will then follow in time.
Donnerstag
04.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
11.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
18.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
25.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
15.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
22.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
29.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
06.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
20.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
27.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
10.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Donnerstag
17.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Digital
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Students are expected to write an exam at the end, which will consist of questions to which they have to provide short written answers.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
To pass the course, students have to reach at least 51% of all points.
1: 100 % bis 91 %
2: 90 % bis 76 %
3:75 % bis 61 %
4: 60 % bis 51 %
5: 50% and lower
1: 100 % bis 91 %
2: 90 % bis 76 %
3:75 % bis 61 %
4: 60 % bis 51 %
5: 50% and lower
Prüfungsstoff
Content of the lectures, selected provided audio/visual materials, and selected key texts
Literatur
Belting, Hans, and Andrea Buddensieg, eds. 2009. The global art world: Audiences, markets, and museums. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
Bunzl, Matti. 2016. In search of a lost avant-garde: An anthropologist investigates the contemporary art museum. Paperback edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Fillitz, Thomas, and Paul van der Grijp, eds. 2018. An anthropology of contemporary art: Practices, markets, and collectors. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Foster, Hal. 1995. The Artist as Ethnographer? In The traffic in culture: Refiguring art and anthropology, ed. George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers, 302-09. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Gell, Alfred. 1998. Art and agency: Towards a new anthropological theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Marcus, George E., and Fred R. Myers, eds. 1995. The traffic in culture: Refiguring art and anthropology. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Morphy, Howard, and Morgan Perkins, eds. 2007. The anthropology of art: A reader. Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology 7. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Sarr, Felwine, and Bénédicte Savoy. 2019. Die Rückgabe des afrikanischen Kulturerbes. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz.
Schneider, Arnd, ed. 2010. Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic Practice. Oxford: Berg.
Steiner, Christopher B. 1994. African art in transit. Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Velthuis, Olav, ed. 2015. Cosmopolitan Canvases: The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Bunzl, Matti. 2016. In search of a lost avant-garde: An anthropologist investigates the contemporary art museum. Paperback edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Fillitz, Thomas, and Paul van der Grijp, eds. 2018. An anthropology of contemporary art: Practices, markets, and collectors. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Foster, Hal. 1995. The Artist as Ethnographer? In The traffic in culture: Refiguring art and anthropology, ed. George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers, 302-09. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Gell, Alfred. 1998. Art and agency: Towards a new anthropological theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Marcus, George E., and Fred R. Myers, eds. 1995. The traffic in culture: Refiguring art and anthropology. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Morphy, Howard, and Morgan Perkins, eds. 2007. The anthropology of art: A reader. Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology 7. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Sarr, Felwine, and Bénédicte Savoy. 2019. Die Rückgabe des afrikanischen Kulturerbes. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz.
Schneider, Arnd, ed. 2010. Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic Practice. Oxford: Berg.
Steiner, Christopher B. 1994. African art in transit. Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Velthuis, Olav, ed. 2015. Cosmopolitan Canvases: The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:20
Aims, contents and methods of the course
By the end of the lecture, students will be able to:
Independently recount major theoretical and methodological developments in the anthropology of art
Understand the questions art-anthropologists ask in their research, and the methods employed to answer those questions
speak critically to established and emerging key debates in the field
to communicate the relevance of art-anthropological research to broader (inter-)disciplinary issues
The contents of this lecture will cover:
What is an "anthropology" of art? Which questions do art-anthropologists ask? What are the differences and similarities to other disciplines?
Early anthropological studies on art, and their relevance for anthropology today
Art and the study of material culture, debates on "primitivism"
Methods and methodological approaches in the anthropology of art
Art, Agency, and Technology
Art in motion and the traffic in culture
Global art worlds and the study of contemporary art
Art as a commodity; issues of authenticity, collecting, and displaying
Debates on decolonizing museums
Newer art-anthropological approaches and research
Methods
The course involves lectures with the use of audio and visual materials, and provides the opportunity for questions and debate.