<i>Art Is Not What You Think It Is</i> utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of contexts</li> <li>Deals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth</li> <li>Addresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions</li> </ul>
