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Reading Asian Art and Artifacts
Windows to Asia on American College Campuses
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2011
Summary
This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. Asian art and artifacts are understood in their contexts, as 'windows' into cultures, and as such can be used as a powerful pedagogical tool in many academic disciplines. The book includes essays by scholars of Asian art, philosophy, anthropology, and religion that focus on objects held in ASIANetwork schools. The ASIANetwork collections are reflective of Asian societies, historical and religious environments, political positions, and economic conditions. The art objects and artifacts were discovered sometimes in storage and were sometimes poorly understood and variously described as fine art, curiosities, souvenirs, and markers of events in a school's history. The chapter authors tell the stories of the collections, and the collections themselves tell stories of the collectors. This volume is intended for use in many disciplines, and its interpretive structures are adaptable to other examples of art and artifacts in other colleges, universities, and museums. An online database of some 2000 art objects held in the ASIANetwork schools' collections supplements this book.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61146-070-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-61146-072-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
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Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Foreword No access
Editor's Note No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1. Re-Iconizing Artifacts: Using the Curriculum to Recontextualize Asian Art No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 2. Making Sense of Material Culture: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Collection Items No access Pages 19 - 42
Chapter 3. The Arts of South Asia No access Pages 43 - P
Chapter 4. Tibetan Art No access Pages 77 - 102
Chapter 5. Chinese Painting No access Pages 103 - 122
Chapter 6. Craftsmanship in Japanese Arts No access Pages 123 - 148
Chapter 7. Japanese Prints No access Pages 149 - 162
Chapter 8. Are There Decorative Arts in Asia? No access Pages 163 - 184
Appendix. The ASIANetwork/Luce Asian Arts Consultancy Project No access Pages 185 - 188
Index No access Pages 189 - 198
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 199 - 200
