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Arnd Schneider - Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina (Studies of the Americas) - 9781403973146 - V9781403973146
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Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina (Studies of the Americas)

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Description for Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina (Studies of the Americas) Hardcover. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 529.
How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the Americas
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403973146
SKU
V9781403973146
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99-15

About Arnd Schneider
ARND SCHNEIDER is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Reviews for Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina (Studies of the Americas)
"A superb ethnography of Argentine artists who feel as much alienated from their European roots as disenchanted by the Western cultural project, and are refashioning a new Argentine identity through the aesthetic appropriation of contemporary and pre-Columbian indigenous cultural expressions." - Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Utrecht University, Netherlands "Arnd Schneider's metholdologically innovative study, Appropriation as Practice, makes a ... Read more

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