Contemporary Art and Anthropology

240 Pages·2020·16.297 MB·English

by  Arnd Schneider, Christopher Wright

Contemporary Art and Anthropology

Contemporary Art and Anthropology
Edited by
Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright
First published in 2006 by Berg Publishers
Published 2020 by Routledge
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvi
1 The Challenge of Practice
Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright 1
2 Appropriations
Arnd Schneider 29
3 Moon and Mother: Francesco Clemente’s Orient
Christopher Pinney 53
4 Where Green Grass Comes to Meet Blue Sky: A Trajectory of
Josef Šíma
Michael Richardson 63
5 Encounters with the Work of Susan Hiller
Denise Robinson 71
6 Reflections on Art and Agency: Knot-sculpture between
Mathematics and Art
Susanne Küchler 85
7 Artists in the Field: Between Art and Anthropology
Fernando Calzadilla and George E. Marcus 95
8 Photographic Essay
Dave Lewis 117
9 Dialogues
With Dave Lewis, Rainer Wittenborn, Claus Biegert,
Nikolaus Lang and Rimer Cardillo
Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright 125
vi CONTENTS
10 Travels in a New World: Work around a Diasporic Theme by
Mohini Chandra
Elizabeth Edwards 147
11 No Borders: The Ancient American Roots of Abstraction
César Paternosto 157
12 Carlos Capelán: Our Modernity not Theirs
Jonathan Friedman 169
13 The Case of Tattooing
Nicholas Thomas 177
Notes 191
Index 221
Figures
1.1. Anselm Kiefer, The Burning of the Rural District of Buchen,
1974, bound original photographs with ferrous oxide and
linseed oil on fibrous wallpaper (213/8 × 1711/16 × 11/8 inches;
62 × 45 × 3 cm), 210 pages, private collection. Courtesy
of the Gagosian Gallery. 5
1.2. Bronislaw Malinowski, Zakopane, c. 1912, photograph:
Stanislaw Witkiewicz. Courtesy of Helena Wayne. 7
1.3. Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Self-portrait, Zakopane before 1914
(cracked glass negative), collection of E. Franczak and
S. Okolowicz. Courtesy of Stefan Okolowicz. 7
1.4. Antony Gormley, Inside Australia, 2002/2003. Cast alloy of iron,
iridium, vanadium and titanium.The entire work consists of 51
insider sculptures based on 51 inhabitants of Menzies, Western
Australia. Courtesy of Antony Gormley. 10
1.5. From Edmund Carpenter, Eskimo Realities, copyright © 1973 by
Edmund Carpenter. Used by permission of Bantam Books, a
division of Random House, Inc. 11
1.6. David and Susan McAllester, Hogans: Navajo Houses and Songs,
Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1980 (2nd edition
1987), pp. 50–1. Courtesy of David McAllester. 11
1.7. Fiona Banner, The Nam, London: Frith Street Books, 1997, first
page (no page numbering). 14
1.8. Gillian Wearing, Drunk, DVD three-screen projection,
23 minutes, 1999. Edition of 3 of 5 + 1 AP (5). Copyright
Gillian Wearing. Courtesy of Maureen Paley. 15
1.9. Bill Viola, Nantes Triptych, 1992. Video/sound installation.
Photo: Kira Perov. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. Courtesy
of Bill Viola Studio. 17
1.10. Haddon’s notebook sketch of the planned re-enactment of the
death of culture hero Kwoiam. Courtesy of the Cambridge
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
University Library, Haddon Papers Env. 1053. 20
1.11. Man imitating the death of culture hero Kwoiam. Mabuiag, 1898
photograph taken on Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to
Torres Straits. Courtesy of the Cambridge Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology, P 749 ACH1. 22
viii FIGURES
2.1. Pablo Picasso, Guitar (Paris, winter 1912–13). New York. Digital
image, © 2005, The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork/Scala,
Florence. Construction of sheet metal and wire, 301/2 × 133/4
× 75/8 inches (77.5 × 35 × 19.3 cm). Gift of the artist. 30
2.2. Mask. Grebo. Ivory Coast or Liberia. Painted wood and fibre.
Musée Picasso, Paris, 1983–7. Photograph © RMN/ Béatrice
Hatala. 31
2.3. Eduardo Paolozzi, Diana as an Engine, 1963 (cast aluminium
190 cm). Courtesy of Flowers East Gallery, and © DACS, 2005.
Female figure, 1947 (wood, 52 cm). British Museum Af.46.523.
Copyright British Museum. 32
2.4. Experimenta, Darmstadt 1971. Joseph Beuys and El Loko. Plenary
Discussion. Photograph © by Inge Werth. 35
2.5. Christian Boltanski, Inventory of Objects Belonging to an
inhabitant of Oxford, 1973, coll, detail. CAPC Musée d’art
contemporain de Bordeaux. Photograph © F. Delpech. 37
2.6. José Angel Toirac, untitled, 1988, Cuban Mona Lisa, pencil on
printed page, 20 × 30 cm, private collection, photographer: Luis
Camnitzer. 38
2.7. Edward Poitras, Saskatoon Pie, 1994, digital image with Coyote
© Edward Poitras. Courtesy of the artist. 39
2.8. Alfredo Portillos, Serie del Vudú a los conquistadores
latinomamericanos, 1997, 60 × 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist
and Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires. 41
2.9. José Bedia, Star Comes to Light the Way, 1992, acrylic on canvas,
found objects, collection of Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, Key
Biscayne, Florida. Image courtesy of George Adams Gallery, New
York. 42
2.10. Osvaldo Viteri, Eye of Light, 1987, collage on wood, 160 × 160
cm, collection of the artist, Quito. Courtesy of Galería Viteri,
Quito. 43
2.11. Teresa Pereda, interviewing Don Víctor in Cochinoca in June
2000 (Province of Jujuy, Argentina) during research for artist
book Bajo el nombre de Juan (Under the Name of John),
Bogotá: Arte Dos Gráfico Press, 2001. Photo: Arnd Schneider. 44
2.12. Elaine Reichek, Tierra del Fuego, 1991. Courtesy of the artist. 46
2.13. Brother Dunstan Bowles, CSC, flanked by the actress Karen
Kuykendall (right) and a student, Hannah McCann, at one of the
Stations of the Cross, Michael Tracy, Eugenia Vargas Daniels and
Eloy Tarcisio, The River Pierce: Sacrifice II, 13.4.90., Houston
TX: Rice University Press, 1990, p. 35, By courtesy of the River
Pierce Foundation, Houston. Photograph: Keith Carter. 47
2.14. Cecilia Vicuña, Bogotá (photo), 1981. Courtesy of the artist. 49
FIGURES ix
2.15. Claire Pentecost, Ishi in Two Worlds, 1990, drawings on
handmade mirror, wood, trash, letters, 15 lecterns, New York,
general view. Courtesy of the artist. 51
3.1. Francesco Clemente, Pinxit, 1980–1. Gouache on antique paper.
From a series of twelve gouaches. 8¾ × 6 inches (22.2 × 15.2 cm).
Courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery. 59
3.2. Chromolithograph depicting the Goddess Chinnamusta. Calcutta
Art Sudio, c. 1880. Private collection. 60
3.3. Francesco Clemente, Head, 1988–90, oil on canvas, 24 × 24
inches (61 × 61 cm). Courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery. 60
3.4. Chromolithograph depicting the Goddess Kali and Ramakrishna.
Calcutta c. 1950. Artist and publisher unknown. 61
4.1. Josef Šíma, Portrait of Nadine Šíma, 1928, oil on canvas,
155.5 × 105 cm, Gallery of the City of Prague. Reproduced by
kind permission of Aline Sima-Brumlik. 64
4.2. Josef Šima, Chaos, 1959, oil on canvas, 100 × 81 cm. Collection
of M and Mme Edwin Engelberts. Reproduced by kind
permission of Aline Sima-Brumlik. 65
4.3. Josef Šíma, Le Point Un, 1970, oil on canvas, 65 × 54 cm.
Collection of M and Mme Edwin Engelberts. Reproduced by
kind permission of Aline Sima-Brumlik. 66
4.4. Josef Šíma, Etude pour le Point Un, 1970, China ink on paper,
55.5 × 38 cm, M.N.A.M. Centre Georges Pompidou. Reproduced
by kind permission of Aline Sima-Brumlik. 67
4.5. Josef Šíma, frontispiece to book by Pierre Jean Jouve Le Paradis
perdu, Paris: GLM, 1938. Private collection, Paris. Reproduced
by kind permission of Aline Sima-Brumlik. 69
5.1. Susan Hiller, Witness, 2000. Audio-sculpture: 400 speakers,
wiring, steel structure, 10 CD players, switching equipment,
lights; suspended from ceiling and walls; approx. dimensions
700 × 900 cm. Commissioned by Artangel, London with the
support of the British Council, the Tate Gallery and the Henry
Moore Foundation Courtesy of the artist and Timothy Taylor
Gallery, London. 73
5.2. Susan Hiller, From the Freud Museum, 1991–97. Vitrine
installation: artefacts, notes, in customized cardboard boxes,
with video projection. Vitrine dimensions variable; 50 boxes,
each 25.4 × 6.4 × 2.5 cm. Commissioned by BookWorks and
the Sigmund Freud Museum, London. Courtesy of the artist
and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. 77
5.3. Susan Hiller, Dream Mapping, 1974, three-night event, seven
dream notebooks, three composite group dream maps. Additional
documentation; exhibited in various configurations Courtesy of
the artist and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. 78