What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editors.
Author(s): Mrazek, Jan
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context
- Author(s)
- Mrazek, Jan
- Publisher
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2008
- Collation
- 313 p. : ill.
25 cm. - ISBN
- 9780824830632
- Dewey Class
- 709.5
- Contents
- 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 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 Maria McGowan -- Conclusion. Ways of experiencing art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mrázek.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Art objects, Asian
Material culture -- Asia - BRN
- 3203
Availability
| Location | Collection | Call No. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Rotunda Library & Archive
|
Books
|
709.5 WHA
|
Available
|
