What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context
2008
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What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / edited by Jan Mrazek and Morgan Pitelka
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Imprint:
Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press, 2008
Notes:
CC/AE
Contents:
Wrapping & unwrapping art -- From the living rock: understanding figural representaion in Early South Asia -- Disposable but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan -- From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani -- In the realm of the Indigo Queen: dyeing, exchange magic, & the elusive tourist dollar on Sumba -- Plunder, markets, & museums: the biographies of Chinese Imperial Objects in Europe & North America -- Situating moving objects: a Sino-Japanese catalogue of imported items, 800 CE to the present -- Angkor revisited: the state of statuary -- An ancestral Keris, Balinese Kingship, & a modern presidency -- Raw ingredients & deposit boxes in Balinese sanctuaries: a congruence of obsessions -- Ways of experiencing art: art history, television & Javanese Wayang
ISBN:
9780824830632
Dewey class:
709.5
Language:
English
BRN:
36221
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNally Campus | MA Asian Art Histories RC | 709.5 WHA | Available |
| McNally Campus | MA Asian Art Histories RC | 709.5 WHA | Available |
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