Sansi-Roca, Roger. 2005. Making Do:Agency and objective chance in the psychogenetic portraits of Jaume Xifra. Quaderns de l’ ICA, 21, pp. 91-106. ISSN 2385-4472 [Article]

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In this article, I explore three central questions in the Anthropology of Art: agency, relational esthetics, and objective chance, through the work of a contemporary artist, Jaume Xifra. These three questions are strictly related, and they are at the foundation of an active dialogue between anthropologists and contemporary artists. Since Mauss and the surrealists to Alfred Gell and relational art, anthropology and modern art have shared a critical approach to the ontological separation of things and people established by modern discourse. Discussing practices of magic and gift exchange, anthropologists and artists have always been interested in understanding how people can become things and things, people.

Item Type:	Article
Related URLs:	http://www.antropologia.cat/node/4193
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology Anthropology > Centre for Visual Anthropology (CVA)
Dates:	Date Event 2005 Published
Item ID:	11850
Date Deposited:	30 Jun 2015 09:47
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2017 12:46
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/11850

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