Robin Osborne & Jeremy Tanner 
Art’s Agency and Art History [PDF ebook] 

Series Editor’s Preface.
Preface.
List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: Art and Agency and Art History: Jeremy
Tanner (University College London ) and Robin Osborne (University
of Cambridge).
2. Enchantment and Sacrifice in Early Egypt: David Wengrow
(University College London).
3. Agency Marked, Agency Ascribed: The Affective Object in
Ancient Mesopotamia: Irene J. Winter (Harvard University).
4. Portraits and Agency: A Comparative View: Jeremy Tanner
(University College London).
5. The Agency of, and the Agency for, the Wanli Emperor: Jessica
Rawson (University of Oxford).
6. The Material Efficacy of the Elizabethan Jeweled Miniature: a
Gellian Experiment: Jessen Kelly (University of California at
Berkeley).
7. Representational Art in Ancient Peru and the Work of Alfred
Gell: Jeffrey Quilter (Peabody Museum, Harvard).
8. Gell’s Idols and Roman Cult: Peter Stewart (Courtauld
Institute of Art in London).
9. Sex, Agency, and History: the Case of Athenian Painted
Pottery: Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge).
10. Abducting the Agency of Art: Whitney Davis (University of
California at Berkeley).
Index

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the
University of Cambridge. He writes widely across the range of Greek
history, Greek archaeology, and Classical art history. He is the
author of Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998) and of
Greek History (2004).
Jeremy Tanner is a lecturer at the Institute of
Archaeology, University College London, where he teaches Classical
archaeology and comparative art. He is the editor of The
Sociology of Art: a Reader (2003), and the author of The
Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and
Artistic Rationalisation (2006)