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What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context
Cynthea J. Bogel
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Description for What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context
Hardcover. Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. This volume seeks to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. Editor(s): Mrazek, Jan; Pitelka, Morgan. Num Pages: 328 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
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 from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television broadcasts of Japanese puppet theater; from Indian wedding chamber paintings to art looted by the British army from the Chinese emperor's palace; from the adventures of a Balinese magical dagger to the political functions ... Read more
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 from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television broadcasts of Japanese puppet theater; from Indian wedding chamber paintings to art looted by the British army from the Chinese emperor's palace; from the adventures of a Balinese magical dagger to the political functions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824830632
SKU
V9780824830632
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About Cynthea J. Bogel
Jan Mrazek is assistant professor in the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. Morgan Pitelka is associate professor in the Asian Studies Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
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