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Zusatztext This volume brilliantly brings into focus ways that artists and ethnographersproduce and give meaning to visual representations of observed culturaland material practices. The compelling range of case studies provides usefulmethodological considerations to connect the interpretive vocabulariesof anthropology and art history. The issues raised here are of significanceto anyone who employs historical or documentary images as part of theiranalytical framework. Informationen zum Autor Max Carocci is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Richmond, the American University in London, UK. He is an anthropologist, and has been researching and curating Native North American arts at the intersection of art and anthropology since his first book Warriors of the Plains (2012). He has curated exhibitions for the British Museum, the Royal Anthropological Institute (London), the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt), and the Venice Biennale, among others. In 2023 he curated a virtual exhibition for the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland entitled ‘Imaging the Field: Sketches and Drawings from the RAI Archives’ which anticipates a conference on Ethnographic representations called ‘Fieldwork Sketches: Blurring the Lines between Art and Anthropology’ scheduled for 2024. Max’s latest publication on the subject is ‘Representations of Baja California Indians as Ethnographic Art’ (Colonial Latin American Review, 2023). Stephanie Pratt is former Associate Professor (Reader) of Art History at Plymouth University, UK, and currently an independent scholar and curator. Dr Pratt was the first Cultural Ambassador for her Tribal Council at the Crow Creek Dakota Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA where she is an enrolled member. She currently works as an Indigenous Academic Fellow for the National Trust UK. She is a member of the Grandmothers’ Society (Kunsi/Unci Society) founded at Fort Thompson, South Dakota in 2014 which promotes the understanding and preservation of Dakota and Lakota culture and language. Pratt’s monograph, American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840 (2005) was the first study of its kind and she explores many of its central themes in her other scholarly publications over the last 30 years. Klappentext Art, Observation, and an Anthropology of Illustration examines the role of sketches, drawings and other artworks in our understanding of human cultures of the past.Bringing together art historians and anthropologists, it presents a selection of detailed case studies of various bodies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and from different time periods (from Native North America, Cameroon, and Nepal, to Italy, Solomon Islands, and Mexico) to explore the contemporary relevance and challenges implicit in artistic renditions of past peoples and places.In an age when identities are partially constructed on the basis of existing visual records, the book asks important questions about the nature of observation and the inclusion of culturally-relevant information in artistic representations. How reliable are watercolours, paintings, or sketches for the understanding of past ways of life? How do old images of bygone peoples relate to art historical and anthropological canons? How have these images and technologies of representation been used to describe, illustrate, or explain unknown realities?The book is an essential tool for art historians, anthropologists, and anyone who wants to understand how the observation of different realities has impacted upon the production of art and visual cultures. Incorporating current methodological and theoretical tools, the 10 chapters collected here expand the area of connection between the disciplines of art history and anthropology, bringing into sharp focus the multiple intersections of objectivity, evidence, and artistic licence. Vorwort
