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What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context

Title: What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editors.
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.

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313 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JQE 08-527

ISBN

9780824830632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824830636 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007031696

OCLC

165081793

Title

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

Imprint

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mrázek, Jan.

Pitelka, Morgan, 1972-

Research Call Number

JQE 08-527

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