List of Figures vi
Preface: Art Is Not What You Think It Is viii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Art and/as Manifesto 1
First Incursion: Artistry and Authorship 19
Second Incursion: The Dangers of Art and the Trap of the Visual 33
Third Incursion: To See the Frame that Blinds Us 52
Fourth Incursion: Deconstructing the Agencies of Art 74
Fifth Incursion: Intersections of the Local and the Global 94
Sixth Incursion: Into the Breach of Art and Religion 121
Seventh Incursion: The Art of Commodifying Artistry 142
Index 165