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What'S The Use Of Art?: Asian Visual And Material Culture In Context,Used
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Postenlightenment 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 Javanese Puppet Theater; From Indian Wedding Chamber Paintings To Art Looted By The British Army From The Chinese Emperors Palace; From The Adventures Of A Balinese Magical Dagger To The Political Functions Of Classical Khmer Imagesthe Authors Challenge Prevailing Notions Of Artistic Value By Introducing New Ways Of Thinking About Culture.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 In Individual Peoples Lives; How They Move From One Context To Another And Change Meaning And Value In The Process (For Example, When They Are Collected, Traded, And Looted Or When Their Images Appear In Art History Textbooks); How Their Memories And Pasts Are Or Are Not Part Of Their Meaning And Experience. Rather Than Lead To A Single Universalizing Definition Of Art, The Essays Offer Multiple, Divergent, And Casespecific Answers To The Question 'What Is The Use Of Art?' And Argue For The Need To Study Art As It Is Used And Experienced.Contributors: Cynthea J. Bogel, Louise Cort, Richard H. Davis, Robert Decaroli, James L. Hevia, Janet Hoskins, Kaja Mcgowan, Jan Mrzek, Lene Pedersen, Morgan Pitelka, Ashley Thompson.
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