Poslední úprava: Bc. Jakub Kvizda (05.06.2023)
The lecture provides an introduction to the history, theory, and methodology within the anthropology of art. It starts
out by discussing terminological issues and the difference between art-historical and art-anthropological
approaches. After introducing earlier anthropological studies on art, the lecture focuses on key debates within this
sub-discipline, including: differences between material culture and art, questions of agency, primitivism,
aesthetics, and iconography, as well as art and technology. Following, newer art-anthropological research will be
discussed in the context of art as a commodity, the collection and display of modern and contemporary art, art’s
circulation in global art worlds, as well as the provenance and restitution politics of art.