Paul Nietupski, Joan O'Mara

Reading Asian Art and Artifacts

Windows to Asia on American College Campuses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. These essays by scholars of Asian art, philosophy, anthropology, and religion focus on objects held in ASIANetwork schools. The collections are reflective of Asian societies, historical and religious environments, political positions, and economic conditions. The chapter authors tell the stories of the collections, and the collections themselves tell stories of the collectors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 179mm x 253mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781611460711
• ISBN-10: 1611460719
• Artikelnr.: 33187084

Autorenporträt

Paul K. Nietupski is professor at John Carroll University. He is the author of Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958. Joan O'Mara (1946-2009) was professor of East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University and a specialist in Japanese and Chinese art history.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Dedication to Joan O'Mara & Stanley L. Mickel 2 Table of Contents 3 List
of Illustrations 4 Foreword 5 Editors' Note 6 Introduction Chapter 7 1.
Re-Iconizing Artifacts: Using the Curriculum to Recontextualize Asian Art
Chapter 8 2. Making Sense of Material Culture: Multidisciplinary Approaches
to Collection Items Chapter 9 3. The Arts of South Asia Chapter 10 4.
Tibetan Art Chapter 11 5. Chinese Painting Chapter 12 6. Craftsmanship in
Japanese Arts Chapter 13 7. Japanese Prints Chapter 14 8. Are There
Decorative Arts in Asia? 15 Appendix A: The ASIANetwork/Luce Asian Arts
Consultancy Project 16 Appendix B: Contributors to This Volume 17 Index