A companion to Asian art and architecture

A companion to Asian art and architecture / edited by Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton.

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Other Authors: Brown, Rebecca M., Hutton, Deborah S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; 3.
Subjects:
Art, Asian.
Architecture > Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting "Asian art" / Rebecca M. Brown, Deborah S. Hutton
  • The material facts of ritual: revisioning Medieval viewing through material analysis, ethnographic analogy, and architectural history / Kevin Gray Carr
  • Textiles and social action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand / Leedom Lefferts
  • Functional and nonfunctional realism: imagined spaces for the dead in northern dynasties China / Bonnie Cheng
  • The visible and the invisible in a Southeast Asian world / Jan Mrázek
  • Building beyond the temple: sacred centers and living communities in Medieval central India / Tamara I. Sears
  • Urban space and visual culture: the transformation of Seoul in the twentieth century / Kim Youngna
  • Unexpected spaces at the Shwedagon / Elizabeth Howard Moore
  • The changing cultural space of Mughal gardens / James L. Wescoat jr.
  • Old methods in a new era: what can connoisseurship tell us about Rukn-ud-Din? / Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis, Yana van Dyke
  • Convergent conversations: contemporary art in Asian America / Margo Machida
  • The icon of the woman artist: Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and the power of painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 / Jennifer Purtle
  • Diasporic body double: the art of the Singh twins / Saloni Mathur
  • Re-evaluating court and folk painting of Korea / Kumja Paik Kim
  • Conflict and cosmopolitanism in "Arab" Sind / Finbarr Barry Flood
  • In the absence of the Buddha: "aniconism" and the contentions of Buddhist art history / Ashley Thompson
  • On Maurya art / Frederick Asher
  • Art, agency, and networks in the career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) / Morgan Pitelka
  • Shiva Nataraja: multiple meanings of an icon / Padma Kaimal
  • Sifting mountains and rivers through a woven lens: repositioning women and the gaze in fourteenth-century East Java / Kaja M. McGowan
  • Dead beautiful: visualizing the decaying corpse in nine stages as skillful means of Buddhism / Ikumi Kaminishi
  • In the name of the nation: Song painting and artistic discourse in early twentieth-century China / Cheng-hua Wang
  • Chinese painting: image-text-object / De-nin Deanna Lee
  • Locating Tomyoji and its "six" Kannon sculptures in Japan / Sherry Fowler
  • The unfired clay sculpture of Bengal in the artscape of modern South Asia / Susan S. Bean
  • Malraux's Buddha heads / Gregory P.A. Levine.

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