That Area of Terror: Robert Smithson's Lowlands (original) (raw)
2023, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek
He has published on early modern European art, with an emphasis on artistic ecologies and the ethical dimensions of style. Ann-Sophie Lehmann holds the chair of art history & material culture at the University of Groningen, where her research focuses on the history, theory, and ecology of materials and processes. She is editor-in-chief of the series Studies in Art and Materiality (Brill) and member of the editorial boards of Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art and Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte. From 2020-2025 she leads the research project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education.
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In her recent book The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, Pamela H. Smith contributes to a growing body of scholarship that reevaluates the relationship between art and science in early modern Europe. She argues that the roots of the Scientific Revolution may be found in the products and practices of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century artisans. Equating active knowledge with handworkers, Smith sees the physical engagement of craftsmen with matter and nature as a particular, valuable form of cognition linked to what she calls a "vernacular" or "artisanal epistemology." She proposes that we consider this vernacular epistemology as "forming a kind of common intellectual currency" shared by artisans, alchemists, medical practitioners, and "all practices associated with changes of state…" (145).
Contemporary Anthropologies of Art | Durham University | 9 Sep 2015
2015
Building on such established anthropological approaches to art as those of Alfred Gell or Pierre Bourdieu, this workshop seeks to map out contemporary anthropological approaches to art. Furthermore, by asking what distinct views on artistic practices are offered by such new theoretical perspectives as ethnographic conceptualism (Ssorin-Chaikov 2013) or relational aesthetics (Sansi 2014), we hope to propose new pathways of anthropological inquiry. A key proposition behind this workshop is the idea that contemporary art theory and practice are increasingly in dialogue with theories of sociality – how we relate to other people to create meaning – and therefore connected to core anthropological interests. The objective of this workshop is therefore not just to apply existing anthropological theory to potentially new ethnographic situations characterized by the production of art, but to develop anthropological theory through an engagement with the conceptual approaches that underpin the contemporary production of art today. The premise we wish to interrogate with this workshop is thus that there is something distinct about contemporary artistic practices. If this is so, what would a contemporary anthropology of art – or rather – contemporary anthropologies of art look like? As the inaugural research event of the Anthropologies of Art [A/A] network, we wish to propose this digital platform as a space to map, link, and interrogate answers to these two questions. Some possible lines of thought addressed by papers may be: • How can we productively theorize the porous boundaries between artistic practice and every life activities? • Has the body been overlooked as a site of artistic production? For example, can we consider the performance of gender as an aesthetics of becoming? • What contribution can anthropology make to understandings of models of postfordist creative labour? • What are the (dis)connections between artivism, protest, and public art? • Can we consider the relationship between aesthetics and politics without a consideration of the state? • How can we provide a better analysis of the porous boundaries of the art world and the market? • What are the potentials of contemporary art for anthropological research? For example, how does the mode of artistic installation challenge and provoke alternative strategies of research?
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