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Title Reading Asian art and artifacts : windows to Asia on American college campuses / edited by Paul K. Nietupski and Joan O'Mara ; image editor, Karil J. Kucera.

Publication Info. Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Teodora O. Amoloza, Stanley L. Mickel, Joan O'Mara, and Paul K. Nietupski -- Re-iconizing artifacts : using the curriculum to recontextualize Asian art / Roger T. Ames -- Making sense of material culture : multidisciplinary approaches to collection items / Karil J. Kucera -- The arts of South Asia / Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker and Paul K. Nietupski -- Tibetan art / Paul K. Nietupski -- Chinese painting / Ellen Johnston Laing -- Craftsmanship in Japanese arts / Patricia J. Graham -- Japanese prints / Sandy Kita -- Are there decorative arts in Asia? / Samuel K. Parker -- Appendix. The ASIANetwork/Luce Asian Arts Consultancy Project.
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 collectively 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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Subject ASIANetwork.
ASIANetwork.
Asia -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Asia.
United States.
Art, Asian.
Art, Asian.
Art in education -- United States.
Art in education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Nietupski, Paul Kocot, 1950-
O'Mara, Joan.
Kucera, Karil J.
Other Form: Print version: Reading Asian art and artifacts. Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2011 9781611460704 (DLC) 2011004200 (OCoLC)700042453
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