Paintings, statues, 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.
- ISBN10 0520298667
- ISBN13 9780520298668
- Publish Date 6 July 2021 (first published 25 May 2021)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English