What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitel...
What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitel...
What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editors.
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Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.
Call Numbers
N709.5/19
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
313 p. : ill., maps, ; 25 cm.
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 weddi...
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Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
Hawaii
Date Published
c2008.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"The chapters consider art objects as they are involved in the world: how they operate and are experienced in specific sites, collections, rituals, performances, political and religious events and imagination, and individual people's lives; how they move from one context to another and change meaning and value in the process (for example, when they...
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Full title
What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editors.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
c2008.
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Call Numbers
N709.5/19
Record Identifier
74VK3XqKl6Mg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3XqKl6Mg
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ISBN
9780824830632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824830636 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
709.5
MMS ID
991023795259702626
