Isbn: 9781350277434 - transformative jars: asian ceramic vessels as transcultural enclosures (material culture of art and design) (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Color and b&w photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 296 pages; 2023 Bloomsbury Visual Arts. HC in glossy color pictorial boards. Very tightly bound, unread copy in immaculate condition. Illustrated with color and b&w photos. As new. Fine.…

hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 296 Seiten Ge61,90 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 810.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAnna Grasskamp is Lecturer at the School of Art History at University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe (2019) and.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar - regardless of whether they contain food or drink, matter or a void, life-giving medicine or the ashes of the deceased. As ubiquitous as they may seem, such containers, storage vessels and urns are, as this book demonstrates, highly significant cultural and historical artefacts that mediate between content and environment, exterior worlds and interior enclosures, local and global, this-worldly and otherworldly realms.The contributors to this volume understand jars not only as household utensils or evidence of human civilizations, but also as artefacts in their own right. Asian jars are culturally and aesthetically defined crafted goods and as objects charged with spiritual meanings and ritual significance. Transformative Jars situates Asian jars in a global context and focuses on relationships between the filling, emptying and re-filling of jars with a variety of contents and meanings through time and throughout space.Transformative Jars brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars with backgrounds in curating, art history and anthropology to offer perspectives that go beyond archaeological approaches with detailed analyses of a broad range of objects. By looking at jars as things in the hands of makers, users and collectors, this book presents these objects as agents of change in cultures of craftsmanship and consumption.…

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Zustand: gut. 2022. Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures (Material Culture of Art and Design) In englischer Sprache. pages.