26’ 1.1499” for a String Player, 147
A
Abdolonymus, 84n15
abduction of agency, 5, 118, 132, 134, 149, 156, 171n4, 183, 192
Absorption and Theatricality, 190
Abstract Expressionism, 111
Achilles, 72
Adams, Marie, 28
Advancement, 167
Aegean empire, 61
aesthetics, 2, 5, 9, 114, 188, 196, 201; cross-cultural, 19, 58; material, 32–36
Afghanistan, 83n5
African art, 29
African-American jazz, 142, 144, 145, 147, 148
afterlife, 72, 81; of literary works, 166, 167
agency, 5; ‘externalist’ theory of, 8; ‘folk’ model of, 5; of producers, 121; of things, 137
agent/patient relationships, 59
Albertian art, 188
Alexander Sarcophagus, 84n15
algorithm, 26–32
Alpers, Svetlana, 178, 188, 189, 190, 197n2
Alyattes, 73
amazonomachy, 61, 73, 74, 77, 78
American Indian languages, 27
Anaglyphic Chimneys, 107
Ancien Regime, 190
Anderson, Richard, 58
Année Sociologique, 90
anthropology, 15–17; symmetrical, 30; theory, 89
anthropology of art, 131, 132, 201, 203; Alfred Gell’s definition, 118; extant approaches to, 1
The Anthropology of Time, 114
Antliff, Mark, 126
art: African, 29; and artefact debate, 204; Celtic, 42, 46, 50–55, 202; comparative, 58; as a cultural system, 189; dealers, 121, 122, 127n10; definition of, 177; historians, 35, 118, 119, 181, 186, 188; history, 20, 114; institutions, 120, 121, 127n5; markets, 120, 121, 122, 123, 190; modern, 198n6; narrative, 189; objects, role of, 5; post-Renaissance, 182, 186, 190; production and circulation, 131; as a turning point of culture 189–90; twentieth-century, formative period, 88, 90, 135; works as a macro-object, 10
Art and Agency: art in, 11–17; and comparative art, 58, 80–82; criticism of, 35; as a difficult read, 33, 202; influence on anthropology, 25–6; and literary theory, 155–72; misunderstanding of, 35; and museums, 203; and music, 137–48; origins of, 4; problem of order and intelligibility, 39; responses to, 11, 17; temporality in, 135, 176–98
artefacts, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 19, 21, 25, 36, 39, 40, 164; agency of, 35, 59, 132, 134, 158, 160; curation of, 48, 54, 203, 204; deposit of, 53, 54; ethnographic, 30; functionality of, 9; literary, 20, 159, 160–63, 166; Marquesan, 27, 31; non-human, 18; standardization of, 45; transformation of, 29, 42, 49; typology, 43
Artemisia, sister-wife of Mausolus, 61, 72, 75
artificial, role of the, 30
artists, 5, 7, 10, 34, 59, 81, 160, 161; modernist, 30; self-promotion, 121; signatures of, 123
‘the art nexus’, 5, 6, 7, 13, 15, 19, 59, 80–82, 117, 155, 157, 159, 166, 171n3, 202
Art’s Agency and Art History, 3
Ashoka, 83n5
Athenians, 73
Attic lekythoi, 72
Australia, 176, 182, 183, 204; Aboriginal, 20, 28, 176, 182, 183, 204
authorship, 5
B
Bacon, Francis, 31, 163, 165–70, 172n17
Balfour, Henry, 22n
Barnhart, Richard, 65, 67, 83n5
Baroque style, 190
Basilikon Doron, 167–69
Bateson, Gregory, 32
Baudouin, François, 163
Baxandall, Michael, 171n5, 178, 189
Bergson, Henri-Louis, 19, 90–93, 96–99, 101, 116, 126, 132, 135
Beringen, 48
Berlin, Isaiah, 111
Berliner, Paul, 144
Beyond Aesthetics, 3
Biagioli, Mario, 171n5
Biersack, Aletta, 29
Black Arts Movement, 150
Boccioni, Umberto, 93, 141, 142
Born, Georgina, 4, 19, 136, 202
Botanical Gardens, Kew, 31
Botticelli, Sandro, 100
Boulez, Pierre, 142
Boutcher, Warren, 20
The Box in a Valise, 123, 125, 125, 126, 128n
Braque, Georges, 91, 92, 93, 127n10
Bredekamp, Horst, 26
Brentano, Franz, 101, 102, 105
The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, Even. See Large Glass
Britain: Bronze Age, 18; coins, 50, 52; metalwork, 42–54
British Museum, 203
bronze, 46; artefacts, 43, 44, 44, 45; chariots, 64; Chinese, 75; sculptures, 83n5
Bronze Age: Britain, 18, 42–54; Greece, 40
brooches, 52
burial, Eastern Zhou, 66
C
Calliope’s Sisters, 58
Campbell, Shirley, 158
canonization, 145
Capillary Tubes, 101
Caria, 73
causation, 5
Celtic: art, 42, 46, 52, 53, 54, 55, 202; coins, 50
Cézanne, Paul, 91, 92, 93, 135
change, 9, 114, 136; models of, 90, 107; theorization of, 116
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon, 191
chariots: bronze, 64; frieze, 61, 63; model, 66
chiaroscuro, 82
chiefdoms, 58
China, First Emperor of, 19
Chinese tombs, 60, 61, 63, 63, 64–70, 64
Chios, 61
Chocolate Grinder, 110
A Choice of Emblemes, 165
Chomsky, Noam, 90
chronology, 43
Chua, Liana, 20
cinematographic perception, 92, 93, 96
civilization, diversity of, 26
Clair, Jean, 100
Clark, T.J., 178, 179, 181, 183, 189, 190
cognitive stickiness, 35, 157, 168
commonplace book, 160
Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, 107
computing, 29
conceptual: art, 111, 135, 136, 156; thought, 91
Confucius, 66
Congolese nail fetishes, 132
consciousness, 26
continuity, 114, 119; problem of, 88, 92, 95–97, 100–102, 107
continuous perspective, 92
control, 5
Coote, Jeremy, 12
Courbet, Jean Désiré Gustave, 198n6
creation, 9
creativity, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 55
critical discourse, 161
Croesus of Lydia, 73
Cubism, 91–93, 95, 97, 116, 121–22, 127n10, 135
‘The Cultural Biography of Things’, 35
cultural: production, 132, 137–48; transmission, models of, 158
Cunobelin, 52
curators, 204
D
Davis, Whitney, 127n5
death, 72
decorative art, 9
DeNora, Tia, 139
diagramming, 29
Dialogues of the Dead, 84n11
Diderot, Denis, 179
digital communications, 170
Un Dimanche après-midi a lîle de La Grande Jatte, 190
Dinka society, 162
Diogenes, 84n11
disorder, 98. See also order
dub, 146
Duchamp, Marcel, 2, 16, 19, 21n2, 34, 88–101, 107–12, 133–36, 179, 203; and Alfred Gell, 114–28; curation of own works, 123, 125, 125; his ‘individuality’, 121; and mockery/irony, 95; self-reference, 122
Duke of Wellington, portrait, 6, 127n7
Dulcinea, 95
duration, 119; representation of, 88
Durkheim, Émile, 88, 90, 97, 116, 136, 149
Dutch art, seventeenth century, 178, 188, 189
E
Earle, Timothy, 58
early modernist period (early 20th century), 89
Eastern Zhou period, 66
Eglash, Ron, 29
Egypt: pyramids, 73; sculpture, 82
eikon, 72
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, 171n5
Elizabeth I, 167
Elliott, Mark, 202
enchainment, 9
engagement, 3, 34, 55, 75, 130, 137, 148, 188, 203; with Art and Agency, 4, 11; cross-disciplinary, 11, 18
epistemic objects, 34
epoch, 20
Erbinna, 84n15
ethnographers, 29
ethnography, 31, 33, 34; of art, 201
ethnology, 25
ethno-mathematics, 29
Europe: seventeenth-century, 31, 46; torcs, 46
Ewart Park phase, 45
experimental music, 142, 146–48, 150
experimentation, 32
Expressionism, 111
extended mind theory, 19, 20, 43, 115, 133
F
The Family of Felipe IV. See Las Meninas
Fauvism, 121
Feld, Steven, 139
feminist politics, 135
fetishes, 132
fibulae, 52
field systems, 53
figuration, 65, 72, 76; change in, 191
Firth, Raymond, 201
Fluttering Hearts, 110
‘folk’ model of agency, 7–8
formalism, 119
formulas, 60
Foucault, Michel, 157, 187, 188, 197n2, 204
fourth dimension, 95, 97–99, 101, 111–12
France, coins, 50
Frazer, James, 16
French painting, 178–79, 184, 190
Fried, Michael, 178–79, 181, 183, 190–91, 197n4
friezes, 61, 63, 73, 74, 77, 78, 81
G
Gallo-Belgic coins, 50, 51, 51
Gell, Alfred: his account of mediation, 139; on aesthetics, 1–2, 12; on agency of things, 7; and anthropology, 118, 126, 202; on the anthropology of art, 5, 131, 132; on art, 34; on ‘the art nexus’, 5; on change, 89; and comparative art, 58, 80–82; compared to Seaford, 41; controversy surrounding, 1; on creative agency of the artist, 10; criticism of, 13–14, 20, 119–20; his criticism of anthropology of art, 58; on decoration, 9; as ethnographer, 25; as ethnologist, 16; on indexes, 180; on language, 156; and literature, 161–63; and Marcel Duchamp, 19, 114–28; on material interventions, 59, 81; on materiality, 13; his model of distributed objects, 191; his model of temporality, 114, 115; his model of time-consciousness, 104; as a multiplicity, 130; and museum theory, 204; on powerful artefacts, 55; responses to his theory, 3; and social semiosis, 133; and the technology of letters, 155–61; on temporality of art objects, 196; his temporal-relational diagram, 108; his theory of ‘distributed personhood’, 10; on time, 179
Gell, Simeran, 88n
Gellograms, 81
generalization, 17
Giotto di Bondone, 91
Given the Waterfall and the Illuminating Gas, 100, 108
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 36
gospels, 166
Grafton, Anthony, 171n5
Graves-Brown, P.M., 35
Gray, Christopher, 92
Greek monumental tombs, 60, 61, 62, 65, 70, 72–74
Greenblatt, Stephen, 157
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 191
Guernica, 182
H
Haddon, A.C., 201
Hades, 72
Halicarnassus, 19
Hamby, Louise, 28
Hanson, F. Allan, 39
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 189
Hay, John, 76
Hellenistic sculpture, 83n5
Henan province, 66
Henderson, Linda, 91, 92, 95, 100
Hennion, Antoine, 139
Herakles, 73
Herder, Gottfried, 28
Hermes, 100
Herodotus, 73
heroes, 73
Hill, J.D., 53
hillforts, 53
Hinton, Charles Howard, 95
hip hop, 146
Hippolyta, 73
Hirst, Damien, 135
historical change, 39
historical-particularism, 89
Histories, 73
Hobbes, Thomas, 31
Horace, 63
Horn, Judith, 135
Hugo, Victor, 189
Husserl, Edmund, 19, 90, 96, 101–3, 105–6, 109, 115, 117, 122, 126, 133, 135–36, 180
I
iconography, 49–52
ideality, 188
ideology, 157
image systems, 26
imagination, 32
imagined communities, 140, 192
imagines ingeniorum, 164
imaging, 26–32
improvisation, 142, 144–46, 148–50
index, 5, 7–9, 34, 59, 60, 69, 75, 79, 81, 156, 158, 161, 164–65, 177, 192
individualism, 77
Infanta, 188
Ingold, Tim, 10
Inkheart, 170
intelligent fabrics, 33
inter-artefactual domain, 43
intimidation, art of, 75–79
intuition, 26–32
iron, 46
Iron Age Britain, 42–53
Isokrates, 73
Italian art, 188
J
Jacobsthal, Paul, 52
jade, 80
James VI/James I, 167–69
James, William, 19, 90, 96, 99, 100, 101, 116, 117, 135
Jardine, Lisa, 171n5
Jesus Christ, 166
Jiangling, 68
Johns, Adrian, 171n5
Jouffret, Esprit, 95
judging, 168
Judovitz, Dalia, 128n
K
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry, 60, 127n10
Kantianism, 90
Kegelriss, 48
kere, 193
kinship studies, 201
Kopytoff, Igor, 35
Kracauer, Siegfried, 136
Küchler, Susanne, 18
L
Labraunda, 73
Large Glass, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 108–11, 116–17
Larson, Frances, 22n
La Tène artefacts, 48
Latour, Bruno, 10, 30–33, 35, 149
least difference principle, 27, 29
Lebel, Robert, 100
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 26, 31, 33
lekythoi, 72
letters, 163, 165–67; power of, 169–70; technology of, 155–61
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 28, 29, 31, 90, 97, 116, 136, 176
libraries, 164
linguistic metaphors and music, 138
Lintong, 63
literacy, 160
literary-historical studies, 157, 159
Lucian, 84n11
Lyotard, Francoise, 33
Lysippus, 78
M
Macedonian coins, 49
Maenad, 77
magic, Trobriand, 8
malanggan carving, 18, 156, 157, 163
Malinowski, Bronisław, 88
Manet, Édouard, 189, 191, 197n3
manifold, concept of, 29, 30, 31
mankind, concept of, 25
manufactured, role of the, 30
manuscript culture, 160
Maori: meeting houses, 21, 43, 73, 74, 133, 134, 179, 194; painting, 203; style, 39
Marathon, 74
Marquesan: art, 27, 31, 33, 133; tattoos, 9, 16
Mashan, 68
material: aesthetics, 32–36; agencies, 13–15, 65, 75–79; culture, 159; mind, 33; representation, 68
materiality, 2, 13, 14, 18, 138
materials science, 36
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 19, 60, 61, 62, 65, 70, 72–74, 78, 83n10
Mausolus (play), 73
Mausolus of Caria, 60, 61, 63, 72–75, 79–81
Mauss, Marcel, 16, 88, 90, 167
Mead, George Herbert, 90
mediation, 137–48
memory, 102; concepts of, 72; internalized, 156
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 107
Metamorphosis of the Cassowary, 35
Metzinger, Jean, 92, 93, 116, 122
Miller, Daniel, on Art and Agency, 8, 14, 137
Minimal Art, 111
Minimalism, 136
Mobile Sculpture, 111
Monet, Claude, 191
monetization, 53
Money and the Early Greek Mind, 40
Monson, Ingrid, 144
Mont St Michel, 91
monumentality, 58
Morphy, Howard, 12, 13, 16, 183–85, 203
Mount Li, 63
Mughal society, 141
multiplication, 27
Musica Elettronica Viva, 147, 148
musicology, 141
Muybridge, Eadweard, 96
Myers, Fred, 28
N
natural anthropomorphism, 13–15
Natural History, 164
naturalism, 77, 82; lack of, 76
Naukrates of Erythrae, 73
Neich, Roger, 43
Netherurd, 48
The Network of Standard Stoppages, 19, 88–112, 131, 134–36, 150
Network of Stoppages, 34, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 107, 116–17, 123
neuroscience, 28
new biology. See biology, new
New Ireland malanggan, 18
new physics. See physics, new
Niederzier, 48
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 93, 94, 95, 116, 122
O
Obama, Barack, 169
Odysseus, 72
orality, 160
The Order of Things, 186–87
ornament, 157
Orphics, 72
Ouspenski, Peter D., 95
P
Paiela body-counting, 29
The Painting of Modern Life, 190
paintings, 181; body, 185, 186; Dutch, 178; French, 178; power and value, 196; Renaissance, 156; superimposed, 99, 100, 117
Pamphylia, 61
Panofsky, Erwin, 61
Papua New Guinea, 20, 191, 192
Paraclesis, 166
paratext, 161
Paris, 178, 179; modernization of, 189
parody, 144
Parthenon, Athens, 74
particular vs general, 17
pastiche, 144
pattern, 39
Pawlovski, Gaston de, 95
Paz, Octavio, 100
peer-polity interaction, 65
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 5, 8, 132, 133, 137, 171n4
Père de Famille, 191
performance, 181, 182, 192, 196, 203
Persian wars, 73
Persians, 74
personhood, 2–4, 10, 19, 40, 60, 77, 79–80
persons as agents, 5
person-things, 10
phenomenology, 90
Philip II, 49
Un Philosophe Occupé de sa Lecture, 191
Picasso, Pablo, 60, 91, 92, 93, 127n10, 182
Pindar, 73
Pinney, Christopher, 136
Poincaré, Henri, 95
Pommeroeul artefacts, 49
portraits, 164
Posidia, 61
positivism, 92
postmodernism, 16
Potter, Harry, 169
pottery, 54
pre-Socratics period, 40
Primavera, 100
Primitive Art, 28
Principles of Psychology, 96
proportioning, 27
protentions, 18–21, 73, 102–7, 108, 109, 111–12, 117, 122, 133, 134, 180, 182, 191, 202
prototypes, 5, 7, 59, 60, 69, 72, 160, 161
Proust, Marcel, 91
psychology, 4
pyramids, Egypt, 73
Pytheos of Priene, 61
Q
qi, 65
Qin Shihuangdi, First Emperor of China, 19, 60, 63, 68, 70, 72, 75, 77, 79–80
quality control, 69
quality vs quantity, 46, 53, 203
R
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred R., 16
randomness, 98
ranking, 76
rap, 146
Rawson, Jessica, 65
reading, 160
readymades, 110, 122, 123, 124, 127n12
realism, 198n6
recipients, 5, 34, 59, 60, 79, 81, 160, 161
reciprocity, 40
re-composition, 146
recording, 147
redistribution, 40
reflexivity, 89
(re)generation, 10
reggae, 146
Renaissance, 188; humanists, 164; paintings, 156
renovation, 166
representations as analogues, 65
reproductions of experiences, 102, 103
result, 5
retentional awareness, 103
retentions, 18–21, 73, 102–7, 108, 109–12, 117, 122, 133–34, 182, 191, 202
Reynolds, Joshua, his portrait of Dr Johnson, 59
Rhodes, 61
Richardson, Mary, 135
robotics, 33
rocksteady, 146
Romanized coins, 52
Rotoreliefs, 110
Rzewski, Frederic, 148
S
Salon des Artistes Français, 121
Salon des Indépendants, 122
sanctuaries, 52
sarcophagus, 80
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 107
scaling, 27
Schutz, Alfred, 109
Schwarz, Arturo, 100, 117, 123, 125
science, 29, 31; of the concrete, 31; and material aesthetics, 32–36
sculpture, 19, 164; Chinese, 65, 66, 67; Egyptian, 82; Greek, 61, 70, 73–75, 77, 78, 79
Seaford, Richard, 19, 40, 53, 54
Segsbury, 54
self-memorialization, 122, 126
semiosis, 138
Seurat, Georges-Pierre, 190, 191
Shapin, Steven, 171n5
Shelton, Anthony, 12
Sidon, 84n15
ska, 146
Skinner, Quentin, 171n5
Slashed Rokeby Venus, 135
Snettisham, Norfolk, 46, 47, 48, 49, 52
Snyder, Joel, 188
social: action, 9; agency, 2, 118, 121, 127n5, 132, 149, 156; anthropology, 14, 15, 137, 158; mediation, 150; relations of music, 140
sociology, 135, 137; of art, 126, 131; comparative, 58
Sompting type axes, 43
Spacecraft, 148
The Spiderwick Chronicles, 170
stelai, 83n5
Strathern, Marilyn, 132
stream of consciousness, 116
style, 27, 39, 55, 58, 82, 122, 133, 202
substance, 40
superimposition, 123
Sutton Reach, Nottinghamshire, 49
Sutton scabbard, 50
Sweeney, James Johnson, 125
symmetry, 39
synoikism, 61
T
Tamil threshold designs, 9
Tanner, Jeremy, 12, 17, 19, 158, 167
technologies of enchantment, 42, 54, 59, 60, 75–79, 119, 157, 202, 203
technology of letters, 155–61, 169
Temiar, 141
temples, 52
temporality, 2, 4, 176–98, 202
Terracotta Army, 19, 64, 65, 66–70, 71, 75–77, 79, 80, 82n3, 83n6
Theodektes, 73
Theopompos of Chios, 73
Theseus of Athens, 73
thinking, 10
Thinking Through Things, 14
Three Standard Stoppages, 101
time, 96, 114; anthropology of, 135–6; and art, 176–98; consciousness, 101, 104, 106, 117, 133, 135, 191, 196
tombs, royal, 60–84
Torres Strait, 176
Totemism, 97
Tower Hill, Oxfordshire, 43, 44, 44, 45
trade, 45
transformation, 5
transmission, 9
Trigger, Bruce, 58
Trobriand canoe prow boards, 7–8, 41, 59, 203
Turkey, monumental tombs, 60, 61, 62, 70, 72–74
Tylor, E.B., 16
typology, 43
U
underworld, 72
V
value, of books, 162
Van Gennep, Arnold, 93
Van Loo, Charles-André, 191
Vauxcelles, Louis, 121
Velàzquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, 187, 188, 197n2
Verica, 52
Vien, Joseph-Marie, 191
visual culture, 159, 188, 190, 191
visuality, 9
visualization, 32
Vollard, Ambroise, 127n10
W
Wagner, Roy, 20
Warring States period, 83n8
Water Mill, 110
Weber, Max, 142
Weiss, Jeffrey, 127n12
West Indies, 163
Whitehead, Alfred North, 132
Wind, Edgar, 100
Wollheim, Richard, 16
work-ness, 147
X
Xanthos, 84n15
Xianyang, 83n5
Y
Yangtze River, 64
Yellow River, 64
yin and yang, 65
Yolngu: ancestral past, 183–86; art, 177–86; initiation, 184–85, 186, 195, 196; sacred law, 185
Young Man and a Girl in Spring, 34, 99, 116, 121, 122
Young, Diana, 28
Z
Zemon Davis, Natalie, 171n5
Zeno, paradoxes of, 96