Table Talks: What is art?

References

• n.d. britannica.com Dictionary, s.v. "art,". Accessed December, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/art

• Shannon, Jonathon H. 2021. "ANTH 721.50 Class Note."

• Shiner, Lanny. "Art and Scent: Interpreting the Olfactory Arts," Invited lecture given at MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma), Rome, September 14, 2019. https://www.larryshiner.com/art-and-scent

• Maquet, Jacques. 1986. "The Aesthetic Vision." In The Aesthetic Experience: An Anthropologist Looks at the Visual Arts, by Jacques Maquet, 25-34. Yale University Press.

• n.d. cambridge.org Dictionary, s.v. "experience,". Accessed December, 2022.
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• n.d. Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, s.v. "aesthetic,". Accessed September, 2021. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic.

• Nanay, Bence. Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, USA, 2019.

• Orman, Enver. n.d. WHAT IS AESTHETICS OR PHILOSOPHY OF ART? Accessed September, 2021.
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• AAA n.d. What is Anthropology?, Accessed December 2022, https://www.americananthro.org/

• Geertz, Clifford. 1976. "Art as a Cultural System." MLN (The Johns Hopkins University Press) 91 (6): 1473-1499.

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• Gell, Alfred. Art and agency: an anthropological theory. Clarendon Press, 1998.

• Schneider, Mark A. 1987. "Culture-as-Text in the Work of Clifford Geertz." Theory and Society 809–39.

IMAGES

• The images [01:48 - 01:53]:

  • A girl with Van Gogh's Painting Starry Night Over the Rhône, by Kerem Inal

  • Daily tous les jours, I Heard There Was A Secret Chord, 2017. Produced by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Photo: Frederick Charles

  • Full Karışık, 2018, Emel Ülüş.

  • Otobong Nkanga: To Dig a Hole That Collapses Again, 2018. Photos: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

  • "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991. Photo: mark6mauno - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark6mauno/10788507753/

  • Free the Air: How to hear the universe in a spider/web, 2022. Artwork © Tomás Saraceno. Commissioned by The Shed. Photo: Nicholas Knight. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles; Neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Andersen’s, Copenhagen; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires; and Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa.

• The image [02:12 - 02:14]:

  • TIMO (MARBLES), 2018, HANS OP DE BEECK, Pilevneli, Turkey

  • BLOSSOM TREE, 2018, HANS OP DE BEECK, Pilevneli, Turkey

• The Mandala/Illusion Videos [03:06 - 03:17]: by Dmitri Posudin from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/colorful-artwork-and-design-1307329/

• The videos [07:40 - 07:57]:

  • Video by Free Videos from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/crowded-street-853949/

  • Video by Marina Leonova from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/globes-sphere-on-display-7601118/

  • Video by Artem Podrez from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/rolling-a-globe-on-a-flat-surface-with-recycling-logo-7048759/

• The videos [08:04 - 08:14]:

  • Video by Kelly from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-view-of-a-person-doing-pottery-5633999/

  • Video by KoolShooters from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-person-painting-a-ceramic-cup-9736882/

• Mask, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Valerie-Charles Diker Fund, 2017. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/717574

• The video [08:42 - 08:50]: Video by phil from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/people-around-louvre-museum-10664465/

• The video [08:57 - 09:02]: Video by Engin Akyurt from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/multi-colored-vapor-1943483/

• The videos [09:35 - 09:47]:

  • Video by Naveen G from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/group-of-people-dancing-in-the-park-4191037/

  • Video by RODNAE Productions from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-man-and-a-woman-in-traditional-mexican-clothing-dancing-at-a-park-8639284/

  • Video by Ruth Slotman from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/person-lighting-up-a-candle-1543735/

• Splashboard (lagim), Anonymous Gift, https://collections.bowers.org/objects/136172/splashboard-lagim

• CANOE PROW BOARD, Gift of Leonard and Helen Evelev, 2003, https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/353356

• Splashboard, Anonymous Gift, https://collections.bowers.org/objects/146425/splashboard?ctx=ecda4cfae6d05599a7541b88f8895aab6af2e55f&idx=56

• Splashboard, Anonymous Gift, https://collections.bowers.org/objects/146421/splashboard?ctx=e04d5e6b1d7fdacb843c4536ff5a64a4bced6e4b&idx=46#

• Splashboard, Anonymous Gift, https://collections.bowers.org/objects/146423/splashboard?ctx=951f863d686b8786ecbfd28a35c41a90f16fca2f&idx=41#

• Model of a Kula Canoe, Collected on behalf of the Bowers Museum by the Roski-Keller-Martin Expedition, https://collections.bowers.org/objects/141948/model-of-a-kula-canoe?ctx=559cd6ba9c2f101663298ac9be304a32554d62ba&idx=75

• The video [10:46 - 10:55]: Video by StefWithAnF from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-group-of-ballerina-wearing-a-phantom-mask-staging-a-live-performance-3578236/

• The image [11:20 - 11:22]: Goddess of the Bosphorus by Suzan Batu, The Phatory, NY, 2019.

• The videos [12:18 - 12:40]:

  • Video by Antonio Jose Meza Cárdenas from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/the-art-of-weaving-2121158/

  • Video by StefWithAnF from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/physical-reactions-mixing-of-colored-liquid-paints-and-balls-3582429/

  • Video by Melvin Wong from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/sculptures-on-display-4909583/

  • Video by Antoni Shkraba from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/people-roaming-around-a-museum-7986423/

  • Video by Barış Şeref from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-street-performer-dancing-in-the-sidewalk-2995905/