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What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context /
"Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.