Art Is Not What You Think It Is

“Preziosi and Farago present us with an invaluable series of provocations aimed at traversing, motivating, and unsettling the discourse of art and its histories. ”
- Jae Emerling, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

“Art is Not What You Think is a groundbreaking book that provides a cutting-edge theoretical take on the conundrum of artistic authorship and meaning today.”
- Amelia Jones, McGill University

Donald Preziosi (Author), Claire Farago (Author)

9781405192408, Wiley

Hardback, published 3 February 2012

192 pages
23.8 x 16 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg

“Summing Up: Recommended.  Graduate students and researchers/faculty.”  (Choice, 1 August 2012)

Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.

• Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of contexts
• Deals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth
• Addresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions

List of Figures vi

Subject Areas: Art treatments & subjects [AG]