Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1 The Challenge of Practice 2 Appropriations 3 Moon and Mother: Francesco Clemente’s Orient 4 Where Green Grass Comes to Meet Blue Sky: A Trajectory of Josef Šíma 5 Encounters with the Work of Susan Hiller 6 Reflections on Art and Agency: Knot-sculpture between Mathematics and Art 7 Artists in the Field: Between Art and Anthropology 8 Photographic Essay 9 Dialogues With Dave Lewis, Rainer Wittenborn, Claus Biegert, Nikolaus Lang and Rimer Cardillo 10 Travels in a New World: Work around a Diasporic Theme by Mohini Chandra 11 No Borders: The Ancient American Roots of Abstraction 12 Carlos Capelán: Our Modernity not Theirs 13 The Case of Tattooing Notes Index