What's the use of art? [electronic resource] : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mr�azek and Morgan Pitelka, editors.
Contributor(s): Mr�azek, Jan | Pitelka, Morgan | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008Description: 313 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Art objects, Asian | Material culture -- Asia | Antiques -- AsiaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 709.5 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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 Mr�azek -- Contributors.
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