Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places (2021)

Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places Statues, paintings, and maskslike the bodies of shamans and spirit mediumsgive material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums who tend and use them in contemporary South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bali, and elsewhere in Asia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts. Autor: Laurel Kendall Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Rok wydania: 2021 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 280 Wymiary: 15.3 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm Ilustracje: 30 color photographs, 30 b-w photographs Język: angielski ISBN: 9780520298675