Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life

by Michael M. J. Fischer

Book Overview

In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, reverberating past traumas, and emergent socialities. He outlines the work of artist-theorists---including Entang Wiharso, Sally Smart,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019778
• ISBN13: 9781478019770
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages