Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television broadcasts of Javanese puppet theater; from Indian wedding chamber paintings to art looted by the British army from the Chinese emperor's palace;...
Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal...
The great attention of scientists has been paid to a family of zinc titanates for their phenomenal photo-chemical properties. They have been widely investigated as photo-active materials for solar cells, novel matrixes for active optical waveguides, lasers and microwave generators. However, advanced applications bring high demands to structural and chemical properties of employed materials. The book introduces versatile sol-gel routes leading to the nanocrystalline ternary phases. The scope lies in the material processing allowing the preparation of nanocrystalline powders and thin films of...
The great attention of scientists has been paid to a family of zinc titanates for their phenomenal photo-chemical properties. They have been widely in...
