A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture

Herausgegeben von Brown, Rebecca M.; Hutton, Deborah S.

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Produktbeschreibung

This companion presents new critical views on crucial aspects of the large and varied field of Asian art and architectural history. The essays collected here provide scholars and the public with an opportunity to engage with the field in all its diversity - from coinage to monastic spaces to imperial commissions and beyond.

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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 Art
Features 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.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Art History
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1275g
• ISBN-13: 9781119019534
• ISBN-10: 1119019532
• Artikelnr.: 41629524

Autorenporträt

Rebecca M. Brown is visiting Associate Professor in the History of Art and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her publications include Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India (2010), and Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (2009) Deborah S. Hutton is Associate Professor of Art History at The College of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of Art of the Court of Bijapur (2006), which received the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities. Together, Rebecca Brown and Deborah Hutton have edited Asian Art: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors xiv Acknowledgments xx
Part I Introduction 1 1 Revisiting "Asian Art" 3 Rebecca M. Brown and
Deborah S. Hutton Part II Objects in Use 21 2 The Material Facts of Ritual:
Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic
Analogy, and Architectural History 23 Kevin Gray Carr 3 Textiles and Social
Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand 48 Leedom Lefferts 4 Functional and
Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties
China 70 Bonnie Cheng 5 The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian
World 97 Jan Mrázek Part III Space 121 6 Building Beyond the Temple: Sacred
Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India 123 Tamara I.
Sears 7 Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the
Twentieth Century 153 Kim Youngna 8 Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon 178
Elizabeth Howard Moore 9 The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens 201
James L. Wescoat Jr. Part IV Artists 231 10 Old Methods in a New Era: What
Can Connoisseurship Tell Us about Rukn-ud-Din? 233 Molly Emma Aitken and
Shanane Davis, with technical analysis by Yana van Dyke 11 Convergent
Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America 264 Margo Machida 12 The
Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and the Power of
Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 290 Jennifer Purtle 13 Diasporic Body
Double: The Art of the Singh Twins 318 Saloni Mathur Part V Challenging the
Canon 339 14 Re-evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea 341 Kumja Paik
Kim 15 Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in "Arab" Sind 365 Finbarr Barry Flood
16 In the Absence of the Buddha: "Aniconism" and the Contentions of
Buddhist Art History 398 Ashley Thompson 17 On Maurya Art 421 Frederick
Asher Part VI Shifting Meanings 445 18 Art, Agency, and Networks in the
Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) 447 Morgan Pitelka 19 Shiva Nataraja:
Multiple Meanings of an Icon 471 Padma Kaimal 20 Sifting Mountains and
Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in
Fourteenth-Century East Java 486 Kaja M. McGowan 21 Dead Beautiful:
Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of
Buddhism 513 Ikumi Kaminishi 22 In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting
and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century China 537 Cheng-hua Wang
Part VII Elusive, Mobile Objects 561 23 Chinese Painting: Image-Text-Object
563 De-nin Deanna Lee 24 Locating Tomyoji and Its "Six" Kannon Sculptures
in Japan 580 Sherry Fowler 25 The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the
Artscape of Modern South Asia 604 Susan S. Bean 26 Malraux's Buddha Heads
629 Gregory P. A. Levine Index 655