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    A companion to Asian art and architecture / edited by Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton.

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    • Title:A companion to Asian art and architecture / edited by Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Brown, Rebecca M.
      Hutton, Deborah S.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Asian.
      Architecture--Asia.
    • Description:xix, 668 p. : ill ; 26 cm.
    • Series:Blackwell companions to art history ; 4.
    • Summary:"This companion presents new critical views on crucial aspects of the large and varied field of Asian art and architectural history. The essays collected here provide scholars and the public with an opportunity to engage with the field in all its diversity - from coinage to monastic spaces to imperial commissions and beyond. Regions and topics covered include Korea, Japan, China, several regions of Southeast Asia, South Asia, global and colonial interactions, as well as art and architecture in the UK and UK diasporas"-- Provided by publisher.
      "This companion presents new critical views on crucial aspects of the large and varied field of Asian art and architectural history. The essays collected here provide scholars and the pubic with an opportunity to engage with the field in all its diversity - from coinage to monastic spaces to imperial commissions and beyond. Regions and topics covered include Korea, Japan, China, several regions of Southeast Asia, South Asia, global and colonial interactions, as well as art and architecture in the UK and UK diasporas"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781405185370 (hardback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
      1. Revisiting "Asian Art" / Deborah S. Hutton
      pt. II Objects in Use
      2. Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History / Kevin Gray Carr
      3. Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand / Leedom Lefferts
      4. Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties China / Bonnie Cheng
      5. Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World / Jan Mrdzek
      pt. III Space
      6. Building Beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India / Tamara. I. Sears
      7. Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the Twentieth Century / Kim Youngna
      8. Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon / Elizabeth Howard Moore
      9. Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens / James L. Wescoat Jr.
      pt. IV Artists
      10. Old Methods in a New Era: What Can Connoisseurship Tell Us about Rukn-ud-Din? / Yana van Dyke
      11. Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America / Margo Machida
      12. Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262
      1319) and the Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 / Jennifer Purtle
      13. Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins / Saloni Mathur
      pt. V Challenging the Canon
      14. Re-evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea / Kumja Paik Kim
      15. Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in "Arab" Sind / Finbarr Barry Flood
      16. In the Absence of the Buddha: "Aniconism" and the Contentions of Buddhist Art History / Ashley Thompson
      17. On Maurya Art / Frederick Asher
      pt. VI Shifting Meanings
      18. Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasn (1543
      1616) / Morgan Pitelka
      19. Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon / Padma Kaimal
      20. Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth-Century East Java / Kaja M. McGowan
      21. Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of Buddhism / Ikumi Kaminishi
      22. In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century China / Cheng-hua Wang
      pt. VII Elusive, Mobile Objects
      23. Chinese Painting: Image-Text-Object / De-nin Deanna Lee
      24. Locating Tomyoji and Its "Six" Kannon Sculptures in Japan / Sherry Fowler
      25. Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern South Asia / Susan S. Bean
      26. Malraux's Buddha Heads / Gregory P. A. Levine.
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