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In the shadow of the golden age : art and identity in Asia from Gandhara to the modern age

Title: In the shadow of the golden age : art and identity in Asia from Gandhara to the modern age / Julia A.B. Hegewald.
Author: Hegewald, Julia A. B.
Publication: Berlin : EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, ©2014.

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Description

584 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans, portraits; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume examines and debates the validity and usefulness of the concept of the golden age when investigating, structuring and categorising Asian and Islamic art. The book contains contributions from fifteen international specialists in the visual arts and humanities working on material from a wide range of periods and regions throughout Asia and the Islamic world. Instead of concentrating on the so-called 'high points' and 'golden ages' of art, which have so far stood at the centre of art-historical enquiries, this publication focuses on visual expressions of confrontation with the 'other' struggle or isolation during times of change. These challenging but artistically often very fertile periods were marked by intense efforts by communities in search for new identities. Through their art and frequently through the re-use of old symbols in new settings they succeeded in redefining themselves so as to strengthen their religious, cultural or political position. In the history of art, these less investigated phases raise issues, which contribute significantly to the subject.

Series Statement

Studies in Asian art and culture, SAAC ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Studies in Asian art and culture.

Subject

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The golden age, history and memory in modernity / Partha Mitter -- Introduction: out of the shadow of the golden age / Julia A. B. Hegewald -- Buddhist art through a modern lens: a case of a mistaken scholarly trajectory / Susan L. Huntington -- The legacy of Gandhāra in central Asian painting / Ciro Lo Muzio -- The 'movable' golden ages: 'western' Asiatic art beyond its homeland and transitioning to central and north-east Asia / John C. Huntington -- 'Golden age' and 'decline' in art-historical writing on Chinese Buddhist sculpture: describing a shifting discourse / Petra Hildegard Rösch -- The alteration and destruction of Buddhist images at Angkor during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / William A. Southworth -- Art and narrative in changing conditions: southern Buddhist temple art as an accommodation of the new and diverse / Sarah Shaw -- Performing endangerment: damage, loss and maintenance in the historiography of Newar religious artefacts / Christoph Emmrich -- Political and social dimensions as reflected in medieval Indian sculpture: comparison, antagonism, identity / Tiziana Lorenzetti -- Golden age or Kali-Yuga?: the changing fortunes of Jaina art and identity in Karnataka / Julia A. B. Hegewald -- Trans-cultural temples: identity and practice in Goa / Mallica Kumbera Landrus -- Indian 'company school' art from 1780 to 1820: collecting versus documenting / Jennifer Howes -- The 'golden age' and the secession: approaches to alterity in early twentieth-century world art / Eva-Maria Troelenberg -- Old texts, new images: illustrating the Śvetāmbara Jaina Āgamas today / Nalini Balbir -- Entangled temporality: contemporary Indian artists and their retakes on the 'golden' age / Parul Dave Mukherji -- Shanghai, Paris, Little Lhasa: on global perspectives of contemporary Tibetan art or the multiplicity of artistic golden ages / Regina Höfer.

ISBN

9783868931495
386893149X

LCCN

2014473612

OCLC

ocn890036359
890036359
SCSB-1830585

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library