Breaking the Disciplines: Reconceptions in Knowlege, Art and Culture

by Martin L. Davies and Marsha Meskimmon

International scholars explore the ways in which knowledge actually operates, showing the limitations of now outmoded disciplines. Coming from fields as diverse as anthropology, philosophy, literature, aesthetics and art practice, together they break down the boundaries between entrenched domains of knowledge. Studies of objects which confound traditional definitions - including a mechanical cow invented by an Irish farmer, and the curious case of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860649173
• ISBN13: 9781860649172
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.7"