Transformative Jars (eBook, ePUB)

Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures
Redaktion: Grasskamp, Anna; Gerritsen, Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350277458
• Artikelnr.: 66292351

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors List of Illustrations Transformative Jars: An
Introduction Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK; Anne Gerritsen,
University of Warwick, UK, and Leiden University, Netherlands Part I.
Transformative Matters: Ceramic Vessels, Chemistry and Socio-Economic
Change Chapter 1. Dreams of Transformation: A 14th-century Flask from
Cizhou Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick and Leiden University Chapter
2. Jars that Cheered: Alcohol and Stoneware Containers in Java before 1500
Jiri Jakl, University of Heidelberg Part II. Transformative Spaces: Ceramic
Vessels and Asian Locations Chapter 3. Siamese Jars and their Significance
in Southeast-Asian Trade from the 14th to the 18th Century Atthasit
Sukkham, Bangkok University Chapter 4. Weaving Networks: Production and
Exchange of Ceramic Jars in South China and Vietnam from the 14th to the
16th Century Wong Wai-yee Sharon, Chinese University of Hong Kong Part III.
Transcultural Enclosures: Containers and their Contents in Global Context
Chapter 5. For Oil, Date Syrup and the Tomb of a Chinese Queen: The
Reciprocal Trade in Chinese and West Asian Jars in the Late Tang/Early
Abbasid Periods Eva Ströber, Curator Emerita, National Museum of Ceramics
Princessehof Leeuwarden Chapter 6. Translocation and Transformation: The
Lives of Chinese Fishbowls in the Early Modern Period Wen-ting Wu, National
Taiwan University Part IV. Transformative Containers: Individual Jars and
Modes of Agency Chapter 7. The Jars Have Ears: Circulation and
Proliferation of Chinese Prototype Container Jars and their Offspring in
Asia Louise Cort, Curator Emerita for Ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Chapter 8. Dragons in
Flux: A Changing Relationship between People and Jars in the Kelabit
Highlands, Borneo, from the 19th to the 21st century Borbala Nyiri,
independent scholar Chapter 9. Jar Interventions: Ceramic Containers as
Disobedient Objects in Contemporary Asian Art Sooyoung Leam, The Courtauld
Institute of Art, UK; Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK Chapter
10. Concluding Thoughts on Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as
Transcultural Enclosures Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK;
Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, UK, and Leiden University,
Netherlands Index