{"product_id":"asian-art-9781405122405","title":"Asian Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAsian Art\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and very useful sourcebook that combines the voices of original authors and primary texts with some of the most interesting contemporary art historical studies.” \u003ci\u003eRichard Vinograd, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The choice of material in this anthology demonstrates why anyone interested in visual culture should carefully consider art produced in Asia. It wisely covers not just well-known traditions but also contemporary art practice.” \u003ci\u003eJanice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II. South and Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Periods and Dates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. “Ashokan Edicts,” from Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1: Ainslie T. Embree, editor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Selections from Stories of the Buddha and The Jataka: Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids and W.H.D. Rouse, translators.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. “The Country of Khotan and the Image Procession” and “The Image Procession,” from A Record of the Buddhist Countries: Fa-Hsien [Faxian].\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \"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\" from Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas: Cornelia Dimmitt and J.A.B. van Buitenen, editors and translators.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mamallapuram.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePadma Kaimal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Excerpts from Borobudur: Louis Frederic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. \"Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple\" from Love in Asian Art and Culture: Vidya Dehejia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEleanor Mannikka.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. \"Akbar riding the elephant Havai \" and \"Akbar supervising the construction of Fatehpur Sikri\" from The Akbar Nama of Abul Fazl: Henry Beveridge, translator.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWheeler M. Thackston, translator and editor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture: Michael Brand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. \"Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th-19th Centuries\" from The Idea of Rajasthan: Vishakha Desai.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. \"Indian Images Collected\" from Lives of Indian Images: Richard Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. \"Image as Presence,\" from From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum: Janet Gyatso.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon: Sandra Cate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. \"The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma\" from Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Partha Mitter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. \"The “East-West” Opposition in Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier\" from Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India: Vikramaditya Prakash.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. \"Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms\" from Imaging the City: Larry R. Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. East Asia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Periods and Dates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. \"The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality\" from Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture: Wu Hung.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Shang and Zhou Bronze inscriptions, translated by Wu Hung and Deborah Sommer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. \"A Magic Army for the Emperor\" from Ten Thousand Things: Lothar Ledderose.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. “The Tigress,” from Once the Buddha Was A Monkey: Arya Sura's Jatakamala.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArya Shura.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. “The Six Laws of Xie He,” from Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts on Chinese Painting: William Reynolds Beal Acker, translator and editor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. \"The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Hsi-chih ([Wang Xizhi], 303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century\" from Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy: Eugene Y. Wang.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. “Ise Jingu,” from Architecture and Authority in Japan: William H. Coaldrake.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image, from Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. “Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape,” from Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th-14th Century: Wen C. Fong.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Guo Xi's writings on landscape painting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSusan Bush and Hsio-Yen, Shih, translators and editors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Jocho’s statue of Amida at the Byodo-in and cultural legitimization in late Heian Japan: Samuel C. Morse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. “The Oak Tree,” from The Tale of Genji: Murasaki Shikibu.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century: John M. Rosenfield.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. \"Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period\" from The Politics of Reclusion: Kendall H. Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. “Practices of Vision,” from Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCraig Clunas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning: Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Letters from European travelers about the Forbidden City: “A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte” and “An English ambassador in Beijing: Aeneas Anderson”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. “The Conventional Success of Ch’en Shu,” from Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting: Marsha Weidner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. “Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Chosen Dynasty,” from Arts of Korea: Yi Song-mi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture: Timon Screech.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. “The Kizaemon Tea-bowl,” from The Unknown Craftsman: Soetsu Yanagi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMao Tse-tung.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution from Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Robert Benewick.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. \"Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Indépendant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s\" from Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexandra Munroe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay: Simon Leung.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. \"Believing is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze\" from Asia\/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art: John Kuo Wei Tchen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407860310359,"sku":"9781405122405","price":115.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405122405.jpg?v=1730500768","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/asian-art-9781405122405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}