Theme:
The archaeology of material culture, bodies and landscapes
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each
Title:
Art as material culture
Content:
This panel aims to explore art objects in terms of material culture. As stated by John Robb and Elizabeth de Marrais (2013, 4), art helps to constitute social relations and is more about doing than viewing. Following this argument, we welcome papers focusing on the economic and social consequences of crafting artistic objects as well as the physical and emotional impact on the users. We are particularly interested in papers that considers iconography and representation as either material strategies to construct social and political identities such as gender, race, and class, or materializations of religious or symbolic beliefs. We encourage papers dealing with all chronologies and geographies to enrich the discussion and the interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.
Elizabeth DeMarrais & John Robb (2013): Art makes society: an introductory visual essay,
World Art, 3:1, 3-22
Keywords:
art, archaeology, crafts, material culture
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Main organiser:
Ms Mireia López-Bertran (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Dr Patricia Horcajada-Campos (Mexico) 2
Prof. Cristina Vidal-Lorenzo (Spain) 3
Affiliations:
1. Universitat de Valencia
2. Universidad Autónoma de Campeche
3. Universitat de València
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