What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mrázek, Jan.

Pitelka, Morgan, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art objects, Asian.

Material culture--Asia.

Material culture.

Antiques--Asia.

Antiques.

Asia.

Physical Description:

313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2008]

Contents:

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 Mrázek

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824830632

0824830636

OCLC:

165081793