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

By Laurel Kendall

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
0520298675, 9780520298675
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
21 MB (21975170 bytes)
Pages
280\0
Time added
2021-05-05 18:01:51

Description

Statues, paintings, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give 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.

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