What's the use of art?
What's the use of art?: Asian visual and material culture in context Jan Mrazek (Editor), Morgan Pitelka (Editor)
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiڅi Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0824830636
DDC: 709.5
LCC: NK1037
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka --
Functions -- From the living rock: understanding figural
representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli -- Disposable
but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in
Japan / Louise Allison Cort -- From the wedding chamber to the
museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. Davis --
In the realm of the indigo queen: dyeing, exchange magic, and the
elusive tourist dollar on Sumba / Janet Hoskins -- Movements --
Plunder, markets, and museums: the biographies of Chinese imperial
objects in Europe and North America / James L. Hevia -- Situating
moving objects: a Sino-Japanese catalogue of imported items, 800 CE
to the present / Cynthea J. Bogel -- Memories -- Angkor revisited:
the state of statuary / Ashley Thompson -- An ancestral keris,
Balinese kingship, and a modern presidency / Lene Pedersen -- Raw
ingredients and deposit boxes in Balinese sanctuaries: a congruence
of obsessions / Kaja M. McGowan -- Conclusion -- Ways of experiencing
art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mrڳazek --
Contributors.
Language: eng
Physical Description: 313 p. : ill., maps, 25 cm.
Edition Info: (hardcover : alk. paper)
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