A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture

by Brown, Rebecca M.; Hutton, Deborah S.; Arnold, Dana

• ISBN13: 9781405185370
• ISBN10: 1405185376
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. Regions and topics covered include Korea, Japan, China, several regions of Southeast Asia, South Asia, global and colonial interactions, as well as art and architecture in the UK and UK diasporas.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. xiv
Acknowledgments	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
Revisiting ôAsian Artö	p. 3
Objects in Use	p. 21
The Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History	p. 23
Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand	p. 48
Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties China	p. 70
The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World	p. 97
Space	p. 121
Building Beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India	p. 123
Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the Twentieth Century	p. 153
Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon	p. 178
The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens	p. 201
Artists	p. 231
Old Methods in a New Era: What Can Connoisseurship Tell Us about Rukn-ud-Din?	p. 233
Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America	p. 264
The Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and the Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500	p. 290
Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins	p. 318
Challenging the Canon	p. 339
Re-evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea	p. 341
Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in ôArabö Sind	p. 365
In the Absence of the Buddha: ôAniconismö and the Contentions of Buddhist Art History	p. 398
On Maurya Art	p. 421
Shifting Meanings	p. 445
Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)	p. 447
Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon	p. 471
Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth-Century East Java	p. 486
Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of Buddhism	p. 513
In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century China	p. 537
Elusive, Mobile Objects	p. 561
Chinese Painting: Image-Text-Object	p. 563
Locating Tomyoji and Its ôSixö Kannon Sculptures in Japan	p. 580
The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern South Asia	p. 604
Malraux's Buddha Heads	p. 629
Index	p. 655
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