Transformative Jars - (Material Culture of Art and Design) by Anna Grasskamp & Anne Gerritsen (Paperback)
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Highlights
- The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something.
- About the Author: Anna Grasskamp is Lecturer at the School of Art History at University of St Andrews, UK.
- 296 Pages
- Art, Ceramics
- Series Name: Material Culture of Art and Design
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Book Synopsis
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.
Review Quotes
A brainstorm of a book, with scholars from a wide range of different fields, Transformative Jars gathers fresh studies on Asian ceramics. It not only totally reshapes our ideas on these most common and practical vessels but also greatly contributes to the interdisciplinary nature of material culture
studies.
Ching-fei Shih, Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
This fascinating, multidisciplinary collection of essays on ceramic jars from, and in, global contexts illuminates ceramic trade, consumption, production and reception through the lens of a single form, demonstrating the agency of vessels as both containers and cultural objects.
Stacey Pierson, Reader in the History of Chinese Ceramics, SOAS, University of London, UK
About the Author
Anna 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 Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (2021).
Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, and Chair of Asian Art at University of Leiden, Netherlands. She is the author of Ji'an Literati and the Local (2007), and The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World (2020). At Warwick, she co-directs the Global History and Culture Centre.Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .68 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 296
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Ceramics
Series Title: Material Culture of Art and Design
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Format: Paperback
Author: Anna Grasskamp & Anne Gerritsen
Language: English
Street Date: June 27, 2024
TCIN: 92898716
UPC: 9781350277472
Item Number (DPCI): 247-43-7426
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.68 inches length x 6.14 inches width x 9.21 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1 pounds
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