02496nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10630545 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 111003s2012 enka sb 001 0 eng d 2011041432 9781405192408 (hardback) 1405192402 (hardback) 9781405192392 (pbk.) 1405192399 (pbk.) 9781444354270 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)823737570 N7425 .P74 2012eb 701 23 Preziosi, Donald, 1941- Art is not what you think it is [electronic resource] / Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xvii, 171 p. : ill. Blackwell manifestos Includes bibliographical references and index. "Few phenomena in our lives are as inescapable as what we commonly refer to as art--yet few concepts are more elusive than the idea of art itself. So what does 'art' look like today? And what is its fate? Art Is Not What You Think It Is offers 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. Revealing how conventional thinking about art is largely based on misconceptions about its history, Preziosi and Farago call for a radical rethink of the subject and its relationship to a wide swath of today's world--from religion and philosophy to culture and politics. The authors probe a variety of issues, including the dangers of art and trap of the visual; the frame that blinds us; deconstruction of the agencies of art; the intersections of the local and global; the breach of art and religion, and commodifying artistry. Provocative and groundbreaking, Art is Not What You Think It Is will reshape conventional assumptions about the nature, meaning, and ultimate fate of art in today's world."-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Art. Electronic books. local Farago, Claire J. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10630545 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 52793 52793