CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Adventures in the Art Nexus

Liana Chua and Mark Elliott

1. Threads of Thought: Reflections on Art and Agency

Susanne Küchler

2. Technologies of Routine and of Enchantment

Chris Gosden

3. Figuring out Death: Sculpture and Agency at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Tomb of the First Emperor of China

Jeremy Tanner

4. The Network of Standard Stoppages (c.1985)

Alfred Gell

5. Gell’s Duchamp/Duchamp’s Gell

Simon Dell

6. Music: Ontology, Agency, Creativity

Georgina Born

7. Literary Art and Agency? Gell and the Magic of the Early Modern Book

Warren Boutcher

8. Art, Performance and Time’s Presence: Reflections on Temporality in Art and Agency

Eric Hirsch

9. Epilogue

Nicholas Thomas

Notes on Contributors

Index