Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Malden, MA ; Oxford, UK ; Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Rebecca M.
• Hutton, Deborah S.

Description

xvii, 519 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primarydocuments ƯƯƯ- from inscriptions and imperialdecrees to travelers' accounts and writings by artists-and the very best contemporary scholarship that has beenproduced on Asian art history. This unprecedented volume offers aportrait 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 theterracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to latetwentieth-century installation art. Featuring accessibleintroductory material for each extract and arranged in aneasy-to-navigate chronological structure, it will prove anessential companion to any study of Asian art history"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 2

Uniform Title

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 2.

Subject

• Art, Asian
• 20.41 Asian art: general
• Beeldende kunsten
• Bouwkunst
• Azië

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I. South and Southeast Asia. Selected Periods and Dates -- Edicts of the Indian Mauryan Emperor Ashoka -- "The Great Ape Jataka" and "Ruru-Jataka": Selections from the Jataka -- "The Country of Khotan and the Image Procession" and "The Image Procession and the Charitable Hopital": Selections from A Record of the Buddhist Countries / Fa-Hsien [Faxian] -- "Varaha, the Boar," "Brahma, Vishnu and the Linga of Siva," "Mt Govardhana," "The Origin of the Goddess from the Gods," and "The Death of Mahisha, the Buffalo Demon": Selections from Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas -- Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mamallapuram / Padma Kaimal -- Excerpts from Borobudur / Louis Frederic -- Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple / Vidya Dehejia -- Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship / Eleanor Mannikka -- "Akbar Riding the Elephant Havai" and "Akbar Supervising the Construction of Fatehpur Sikri," from The Akbar Nama of Abul Fazl -- Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India -- Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture / Michael Brand
• Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th-19th Centuries / Vishakha Desai -- Indian Images Collected / Richard Davis -- Image as Presence / Janet Gyatso -- Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon / Sandra Cate -- The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma / Partha Mitter -- The "East"West" Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier / Vikramaditya Prakash -- Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms / Larry R. Ford -- Part II. East Asia. Selected Periods and Dates -- The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality / Wu Hung -- Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions -- A Magic Army for the Emperor / Lothar Ledderose -- The Tigress / Arya Shura -- The Six Laws of Xie He -- The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Hsi-chih ([Wang Xizhi], 303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century / Eugene Y. Wang -- Ise Jingu / William H. Coaldrake -- Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image -- Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape / Wen C. Fong -- Guo Xi's Writings on Landscape Painting -- Jocho's Statue of Amida at the Byodo-in and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan / Samuel C. Morse -- "The Oak Tree," from The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century / John M. Rosenfield -- Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period / Kendall H. Brown
• Practices of Vision / Craig Clunas -- Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- Letters from European Travelers about the Forbidden City: "A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte" and "An English Ambassador in Beijing: Aeneas Anderson" -- The Conventional Success of Chen Shu [Chen Shu] / Marsha Weidner -- Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Chosen Dynasty / Yi Song-mi -- The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture / Timon Screech -- The Kizaemon Tea-bowl / Soetsu Yanagi -- Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong] -- Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution / Robert Benewick -- Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Independant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s / Alexandra Munroe -- Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay / Simon Leung -- Believing Is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze / John Kuo Wei Tchen.

ISBN

• 1405122404
• 9781405122405
• 1405122412
• 9781405122412

LCCN

• 2006001997
• 9781405122405
• 9781405122412
• 100406228

OCLC

• ocm63125950
• 63125950
• SCSB-1373426

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library