Many insightful reflections from history and philosophy of art could be stitched together to engender an anxious train of thinking not only about art as a process and cultural product but also about its relevance in reading society and politics. Among numerous articulations on the commonsense of art, we often hear that there cannot be a formulaic vantage point to judge art, that art is essentially about a mode of experiential expression or an expression of blissful imagination and therefore is embedded in a field of subjectivism. Within this popular commonsense, a sociologist might deem these relationships and conditions too messy to decipher in a way that would make sociological sense. Such a pronounced absence of art in sociology and anthropology and anxieties about art’s reliability in reading society and its politics are the foundation of this book.
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Perera, S., & Pathak, D. N. (2019). Intersections and Implications: When Anthropology, Art Practice, and Art History Converge. In Intersections of contemporary art, anthropology and art history in South Asia (pp. 1–46). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05852-4_1
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