Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original researchto present a series of critical incursions into the current stateof debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largelymissing or unsaid in those discussions.
* Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to therealities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they havestructurally functioned in a variety of contexts
* Deals with divisive and controversial problems such asblasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth
* Addresses relations between European notions about art andartifice and those developed in other and especially indigenouscultural traditions