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Text looks at questions raised by Alfred Gell's "Art and agency: an anthropological theory."

Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociolo

In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money,

Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the disci

Memory studies — one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day — brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, reli