Asian art / edited by Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Rebecca M.

Hutton, Deborah S.

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 2.

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Asian.

Physical Description:

xvii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Summary:

Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents ---- from inscriptions and imperial decrees to travelers' accounts and writings by artists - and the very best contemporary scholarship that has been produced on Asian art history. This unprecedented volume offers a glorious 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.

Contents:

Part I South and Southeast Asia 11

1 Edicts of the Indian Mauryan Emperor Ashoka 13

2 "The Great Ape Jataka" and "Ruru-Jataka": Selections from the Jataka 21

3 "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

5 Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mammallapuram / Padma Kaimal 43

6 Excerpts from Borobudur / Louis Frederic 57

7 Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple / Vidya Dehejia 71

8 Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship / Eleanor Mannikka 83

9 "Akbar Riding the Elephant Havai" and "Akbar Supervising the Construction of Fatehpur Sikri," from The Akbarnama of Abul Fazl 93

10 Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India 97

11 Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture / Michael Brand 101

12 Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th-19th Centuries / Vishakha Desai 116

13 Indian Images Collected / Richard Davis 127

14 Image as Presence / Janet Gyatso 140

15 Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon Sandra Cate 147

16 The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma / Partha Mitter 167

17 The "East-West" Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier / Vikramaditya Prakash 177

18 Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms / Larry R. Ford 189

Part II East Asia 199

19 The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality / Wu Hung 201

20 Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions 214

21 A Magic Army for the Emperor / Lothar Ledderose 218

22 The Tigress / Arya Shura 237

23 The Six Laws of Xie He 242

24 The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Xizhi (303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century / Eugene Y. Wang 247

25 Ise Jingu / William H. Coaldrake 261

26 Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image 275

27 Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape / Wen C. Fong 278

28 Guo Xi's Writings on Landscape Painting 289

29 Jocho's Statue of Amida at the Byodoin and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan / Samuel C. Morse 295

30 "The Oak Tree," from The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 311

31 The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century / John M. Rosenfield 325

32 Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period / Kendall H. Brown 338

33 Practices of Vision / Craig Clunas 352

34 Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt 362

35 Letters from European Travelers about the Forbidden City: "A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte" and "An English Ambassador in Beijing: Aeneas Anderson" 376

36 The Conventional Success of Chen Shu / Marsha Weidner 380

37 Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Choson Dynasty / Yi Song-mi 395

38 The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture / Timon Screech 408

39 The Kizaemon Tea-bowl / Soetsu Yanagi 424

40 Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong / Mao Zedong 431

41 Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution / Robert Benewick 435

42 Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Independant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s / Alexandra Munroe 448

43 Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay / Simon Leung 462

44 Believing Is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze / John Kuo Wei Tchen 476.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405122404

1405122412

OCLC:

63125950

Publisher Number:

9781405122405

9781405122412