{"product_id":"transformative-jars-asian-ceramic-vessels-as-transcultural-enclosures-paperback","title":"Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Grasskamp\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Yonan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnne Gerritsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eTransformative Jars\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransformative\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Grasskamp \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer at the School of Art History at University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eObjects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eArt and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Gerritsen\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJi'an Literati and the Local\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eThe City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). At Warwick, she co-directs the Global History and Culture Centre.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773932405024,"sku":"9781350277472","price":73.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1e1cb70a6db3815e02fc8d6074c71e22_0443ed8d-2586-494c-a222-f1e623f893d6.webp?v=1780436185","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/transformative-jars-asian-ceramic-vessels-as-transcultural-enclosures-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}