Aesthetics and Anthropology

This book focuses on the reconfiguration of aesthetic anthropology into an anthropological problem of cogitation, opening up a fascinating new dialogue between the domains of anthropology, philosophy, and art.

Tarek Elhaik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA, and the author of The Incurable Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts (Edinburgh U. Press, 2016). He is also the founder of AIL: Anthropology Image Lab.

Preface; Prelude: The Cogitator; 1 The Art of Cogitation; 2 Mathias Goeritz / Concrete Abstractions; 3 Silvia Gruner / Desperate Playfulness; 4 Mounir Fatmi / Cerebral Compositions; 5 Patricia Lagarde / A Naturalist's Blues; 6 Marine Cogitations; References