A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture By Rebecca M. Brown, Deborah S. Hutton (eds.)
2011 | 679 Pages | ISBN: 1405185376 | PDF | 10 MB
A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture presents a collection of 26 original essays from top scholars in the field that explore and critically examine various aspects of Asian art and architectural history.Brings together top international scholars of Asian art and architecture Represents the current state of the field while highlighting the wide range of scholarly approaches to Asian ArtFeatures work on Korea and Southeast Asia, two regions often overlooked in a field that is often defined as India-China-Japan Explores the influences on Asian art of global and colonial interactions and of the diasporic communities in the US and UK Showcases a wide range of topics including imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.Content: Chapter 1 Revisiting "Asian Art" (pages 1-20): Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. HuttonChapter 2 The Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History (pages 21-47): Kevin Gray CarrChapter 3 Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand (pages 48-69): Leedom LeffertsChapter 4 Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties China (pages 70-96): Bonnie ChengChapter 5 The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World (pages 97-120): Jan MrazekChapter 6 Building beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India (pages 121-152): Tamara I. SearsChapter 7 Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the Twentieth Century (pages 153-177): Kim YoungnaChapter 8 Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon (pages 178-200): Elizabeth Howard MooreChapter 9 The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens (pages 201-229): James L. WescoatChapter 10 Old Methods in a New Era: What can Connoisseurship Tell us about Rukn?Ud?Din? (pages 231-263): Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis and Yana van DykeChapter 11 Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America (pages 264-289): Margo MachidaChapter 12 The Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and the Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 (pages 290-317): Jennifer PurtleChapter 13 Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins (pages 318-338): Saloni MathurChapter 14 Re?Evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea (pages 339-364): Kumja Paik KimChapter 15 Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in "Arab" Sind (pages 365-397): Finbarr Barry FloodChapter 16 In the Absence of the Buddha: "Aniconism" and the Contentions of Buddhist Art History (pages 398-420): Ashley ThompsonChapter 17 On Maurya Art (pages 421-443): Frederick AsherChapter 18 Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) (pages 445-470): Morgan PitelkaChapter 19 Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon (pages 471-485): Padma KaimalChapter 20 Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth?Century East Java (pages 486-512): Kaja M. McGowanChapter 21 Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of Buddhism (pages 513-536): Ikumi KaminishiChapter 22 In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth?Century China (pages 537-560): Cheng?Hua WangChapter 23 Chinese Painting: Image?Text?Object (pages 561-579): De?Nin Deanna LeeChapter 24 Locating Tomyoji and its "Six" Kannon Sculptures in Japan (pages 580-603): Sherry FowlerChapter 25 The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern South Asia (pages 604-628): Susan S. BeanChapter 26 Malraux's Buddha Heads (pages 629-654): Gregory P. A. Levine
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