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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 Javanese 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 of classical Khmer images-the 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 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 th

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Author

Jan Mrázek; Morgan Pitelka

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press; University of Hawaiʻi Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824830632

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism