Site-specificity: The Ethnographic TurnSince the work of Robert Smithson in the late 1960s, the notion of site specificity has been crucial to an understanding of contemporary art. Extending the debate, this book argues that the discipline of ethnography can enrich our conception of what site is. Commissioned essays, interviews and visual projects by ethnographers, artists and art critics reflect on this dialogue between art and ethnography. Together they comprise a critical overview of the discourse. |
Contents
Figures of Travel in Contemporary | 10 |
The Seen and the Unseen | 30 |
An Ethnographer in the Field | 52 |
Copyright | |
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aesthetic Alex Coles American anthropology architecture art history Artist as Ethnographer artwork Birthday Ceremony cabinets CALIFOR Calle's Capelán Cardillo centres Charrúa Cherokee classical Clifford colour concept contemporary context critical critique Disneyland display empathy ERSITY essay ethnographic everyday exhibition experience fantasies feathers fieldwork film Firminy Gabriel Orozco Gallery gift Hal Foster Heinrich Wölfflin identity indigenous inhabitants installation Institute interpretation IVERSITY language Le Corbusier Lee's live London Lothar Baumgarten material mediated modern modernist montes criollos Montevideo Müller museum Nikki nineteenth century nomadism notion objects origins ornament persons Philipp Müller photographs postmodern practice Predicament of Culture primitive projects recent Renée Green representation Riegl Rirkrit Tiravanija Romero SAN DIEGO Schmarsow Semper SITY Sophie Calle space specific Stilfragen Suite Venitienne Tasaday Tiravanija's tourist tradition Tuazon Unité UNIVE UNIVERSIT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA University Press Uruguay Uruguayan viewer visual Western Willhelm Wölfflin Worringer Wundt York