Reading Asian art and artifacts : windows to Asia on American college campuses

Resource Information

The work Reading Asian art and artifacts : windows to Asia on American college campuses represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Reading Asian art and artifacts : windows to Asia on American college campuses

Title remainder

windows to Asia on American college campuses

Statement of responsibility

edited by Paul K. Nietupski and Joan O'Mara ; image editor, Karil J. Kucera

Contributor

• Nietupski, Paul Kocot, 1950-
• O'Mara, Joan
• Kucera, Karil J

Subject

• ASIANetwork
• Art in education -- United States
• Art, Asian
• Asia -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

709.5

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DS32.9.U5

LC item number

R43 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography