What's the Use of Art? : : Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context / / ed. by Morgan Pitelka, Jan Mrazek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bogel, Cynthea J.,; Caroli, Robert De,; Cort, Louise Allison,; Davis, Richard H.,; Hevia, James L.,; Hoskins, Janet,; Mc Gowan, Kaja M.,; Mrázek, Jan,; Pedersen, Lene,; Pitelka, Morgan,; Thompson, Ashley,
• HerausgeberIn: Mrazek, Jan,; Pitelka, Morgan,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 52 illus.

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 objects...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Wrapping and Unwrapping Art
• Functions
• One. From the Living Rock Understanding Figural Representation in Early South Asia
• Two. Disposable but Indispensable the Earthenware Vessel as Vehicle of Meaning In Japan
• Three. From the Wedding Chamber to the Museum Relocating the Ritual Arts of Madhubani
• Four. In the Realm of the Indigo Queen Dyeing, Exchange Magic, and the Elusive Tourist Dollar on Sumba
• Movements
• Five. Plunder, Markets, and Museums the Biographies of Chinese Imperial Objects in Europe and North America
• Six. Situating Moving Objects: A Sino-Japanese Catalogue of Imported Items, 800 Ce to the Present
• Memories
• Seven. Angkor Revisited the State of Statuary
• Eight. An Ancestral Keris, Balinese Kingship, and A Modern Presidency
• Nine. Raw Ingredients and Deposit Boxes in Balinese Sanctuaries: A Congruence of Obsessions
• Conclusion. Ways Of Experiencing: Art Art History, Television, And Javanese Wayang
• Contributors
• Index