{"product_id":"a-companion-to-asian-art-and-architecture-isbn-9781119019534","title":"A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Asian Art and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of 26 original essays from top scholars in the field that explore and critically examine various aspects of Asian art and architectural history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together top international scholars of Asian art and architecture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents the current state of the field while highlighting the wide range of scholarly approaches to Asian Art \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures work on Korea and Southeast Asia, two regions often overlooked in a field that is often defined as India-China-Japan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the influences on Asian art of global and colonial interactions and of the diasporic communities in the US and UK\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShowcases a wide range of topics including imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Revisiting “Asian Art” 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Objects in Use \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKevin Gray Carr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeedom Lefferts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties China 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBonnie Cheng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJan Mrázek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Space \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Building Beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India 123\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTamara I. Sears\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the Twentieth Century 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKim Youngna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon 178\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Howard Moore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens 201\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames L. Wescoat Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Artists \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e231\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Old Methods in a New Era: What Can Connoisseurship Tell Us about Rukn-ud-din? 233\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMolly Emma Aitken and Shanane Davis, with technical analysisby Yana van Dyke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America 264\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargo Machida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) and the Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 290\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Purtle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins 318\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSaloni Mathur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Challenging the Canon \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e339\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Re-evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea 341\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKumja Paik Kim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in “Arab” Sind 365\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFinbarr Barry Flood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 In the Absence of the Buddha: “Aniconism” and the Contentions of Buddhist Art History 398\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAshley Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 On Maurya Art 421\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrederick Asher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Shifting Meanings \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e445\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) 447\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMorgan Pitelka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon 471\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePadma Kaimal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth-Century East Java 486\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKaja M. McGowan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of Buddhism 513\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIkumi Kaminishi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century China 537\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCheng-hua Wang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII Elusive, Mobile Objects \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e561\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Chinese Painting: Image-Text-Object 563\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDe-nin Deanna Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Locating Tomyoji and Its “Six” Kannon Sculptures in Japan 580\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSherry Fowler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern South Asia 604\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan S. Bean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Malraux’s Buddha Heads 629\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGregory P. A. Levine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 655\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRebecca M. Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is visiting Associate Professor in the History of Art and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eGandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and \u003ci\u003eArt for a Modern India, 1947-1980\u003c\/i\u003e (2009)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah S. Hutton\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History at The College of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eArt of the Court of Bijapur\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), which received the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, Rebecca Brown and Deborah Hutton have edited \u003ci\u003eAsian Art: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Asian Art and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of 26 original essays that explore and critically examine various aspects of the field of Asian art and architectural history. Featuring contributions from both leading scholars and emerging voices, the essays offer the opportunity to engage with the current state of scholarship in Asian art and to discover its rich diversity. In topics that range from ancient tombs and imperial commissions to coinage and cultural interaction, and from gardens and monastic spaces to performances and pilgrimages, this wide-ranging and insightful collection of essays illuminates the wide geographic and temporal range of Asian visual culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthors explore the art of Korea, Japan, China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and their diasporas, engaging issues related to colonial legacies and global interactions. Written by experts in art history, archaeology, geography, history, and anthropology, the essays are organized around six critical themes that reflect the current state of Asian art scholarship: Objects in Use, Space, Artists, Challenging the Canon, Shifting Meanings, and Elusive, Mobile Objects. With its multilayered presentation and wealth of thought-provoking new insights, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Asian Art and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e is an important addition to current scholarship that will reshape the way we consider Asian art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988602306789,"sku":"NP9781119019534","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119019534.jpg?v=1761780931","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-asian-art-and-architecture-isbn-9781119019534","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}