Asian Art : An Anthology

by Brown, Rebecca; Hutton, Deborah S.

• ISBN13: 9781405122412
• ISBN10: 1405122412
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents shy;shy;shy; from inscriptions and imperial decrees to travelersrs" accounts and writings by artists and the very best contemporary scholarship that has been produced on Asian art history. This unprecedented volume offers a portrait of the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. Across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography, this volume traces several thousand years of Asian art, from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late twentieth-century installation art. Featuring accessible introductory material for each extract and arranged in an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, it will prove an essential companion to any study of Asian art history.

Author Biography

Rebecca M. Brown is an Independent Scholar of South Asian visual culture from the eighteenth century to the present. She is author of Art for a Modern India, 1947–80 (2007).

Deborah S. Hutton is Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of New Jersey. She is the author of The Art of the Court of Bijapur (2006), winner of the College Art Association Millard Meiss Publishing Grant and the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in Indian Humanities.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Series Editor's Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I South and Southeast Asia	11	(188)
Selected Periods and Dates	11	(2)
Edicts of the Indian Mauryan Emperor Ashoka	13	(8)
``The Great Ape Jataka'' and ``Ruru-Jataka'': Selections from the Jataka	21	(9)
``The Country of Khotan and the Image Procession'' and ``The Image Procession and the Charitable Hospital'': Selections from A Record of the Buddhist Countries Fa-Hsien [Faxian]	30	(4)
``Varaha, the Boar,'' ``Brahma, Vishnu and the Linga of Shiva,'' ``Mt Govardhana,'' ``The Origin of the Goddess from the Gods,'' and ``The Death of Mahisha, the Buffalo Demon,'' from Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas	34	(9)
Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mamallapuram	43	(14)
Padma Kaimal
Excerpts from Borobudur	57	(14)
Louis Frederic
Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple	71	(12)
Vidya Dehejia
Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship	83	(10)
Eleanor Mannikka
``Akbar Riding the Elephant Havai'' and ``Akbar Supervising the Construction of Fatehpur Sikri,'' from The Akbarnama of Abdul Fazl	93	(4)
Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India	97	(4)
Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture	101	(15)
Michael Brand
Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th--19th Centuries	116	(11)
Vishakha Desai
Indian Images Collected	127	(13)
Richard Davis
Image as Presence	140	(7)
Janet Gyatso
Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon Sandra Cate	147	(20)
The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma	167	(10)
Partha Mitter
The ``East--West'' Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier	177	(12)
Vikramaditya Prakash
Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms	189	(10)
Larry R. Ford
Part II East Asia	199	(294)
Selected Periods and Dates	199	(2)
The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality	201	(13)
Wu Hung
Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions	214	(4)
A Magic Army for the Emperor	218	(19)
Lothar Ledderose
The Tigress	237	(5)
Arya Shura
The Six Laws of Xie He	242	(5)
The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Xizhi (303--361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century	247	(14)
Eugene Y. Wang
Ise Jingu	261	(14)
William H. Coaldrake
Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image	275	(3)
Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape	278	(11)
Wen C. Fong
Guo Xi's Writings on Landscape Painting	289	(6)
Jocho's Statue of Amida at the Byodoin and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan	295	(16)
Samuel C. Morse
``The Oak Tree,'' from The Tale of Genji	311	(14)
Murasaki Shikibu
The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century	325	(13)
John M. Rosenfield
Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period	338	(14)
Kendall H. Brown
Practices of Vision	352	(10)
Craig Clunas
Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning	362	(14)
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Letters from European Travelers about the Forbidden City: ``A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte'' and ``An English Ambassador in Beijing: Aneas Anderson''	376	(4)
The Conventional Success of Chen Shu	380	(15)
Marsha Weidner
Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Choson Dynasty	395	(13)
Yi Song-mi
The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture	408	(16)
Timon Screech
The Kizaemon Tea-bowl	424	(7)
Soetsu Yanagi
Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong	431	(4)
Mao Zedong
Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution	435	(13)
Robert Benewick
Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Independant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s	448	(14)
Alexandra Munroe
Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay	462	(14)
Simon Leung
Believing Is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze	476	(17)
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Index	493