Women, gender and art in Asia, c. 1500-1900 / edited by Melia Belli Bose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belli Bose, Melia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Asia.

Art and society.

Art, Asian--Themes, motives.

Art, Asian.

Women artists--Asia.

Women artists.

Women in art.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xx, 371 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Summary:

Women, Gender & Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900" brings women's engagements with art into a pan-Asian dialogue with essays that examine women as artists, commissioners, collectors, and subjects from India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The artistic media includes painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles, and photography. The book is broadly concerned with four salient questions: How unusual was it for women to engage directly with art? What factors precluded more women from doing so? In what ways did women's artwork or commissions differ from those of men? And, what were the range of meanings for woman as subject matter? The chapters deal with historic individuals about whom there is considerable biographical information. Beyond locating these uncommon women within their socio-cultural milieux, contributors consider the multiple strands that twined to comprise their complex identities, and how these impacted their works of art. In many cases, the woman's status-as wife, mother, widow, ruler, or concubine, (and multiple combinations thereof) as well as her religion and lineage-determined the media, style, and content of her art.

Contents:

Introduction: Queens, courtesans, and collectors: women's engagement with art in Asia / Melia Belli Bose

pt. 1. Matrons, art, and power. Mapping Holkar identity and the good name of Ahilyabai / Cathleen Cummings ; Royal matronage and a visual vocabulary of Indian queenship: Ahilyabai Holkar's memorial commissions / Melia Belli Bose ; Heavenly mistress and Bodhisattva: visualizing the divine identities of two empresses in Ming China (1368-1644) / Luk Yu-Ping ; A very "modern" matron: Phra Rachaya Dara Rasami as promoter and preserver of Lan Na Culture in early twentieth-century Siam / Leslie Woodhouse

pt. 2. Women's work and working women. Imagining Du Liniang in The Peony Pavilion: female painters, self-portraiture, and paintings of beautiful women in late Ming China / Lara C.W. Blanchard ; Creating art in Japan's Imperial Buddhist convents: devotional practice and cultural pastime / Patricia Fister ; Women's work: Phulkari, Flora Annie Steel, and collecting textiles in British India / Cristin Mcknight Sethi

pt. 3. Depicting the exemplary woman. Defining a woman: the painting of Sin Saimdang / Sunglim Kim ; Properly female: illustrated books of morals for women in Edo Japan / Elizabeth Lillehoj ; Absence and presence: representations of human and non-human females in Tibetan Thangkas / Serinity Young

pt. 4. Gender in liminal spaces. Reconsidering gender realms: the garden as site and setting in late Imperial Shanghai / Kristen Chiem ; Women who crossed the cordon / Ikumi Kaminishi ; A multi-gendered scandal: the survival of the prostitute meme, Asazuma Boat / Miriam Wattles.

Notes:

"An Ashgate book"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472464262

1472464265

OCLC:

919316414