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

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

xix, 668 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; -- 3

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Revisiting "Asian art" / Rebecca M. Brown, Deborah S. Hutton -- The material facts of ritual: revisioning Medieval viewing through material analysis, ethnographic analogy, and architectural history / Kevin Gray Carr -- Textiles and social action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand / Leedom Lefferts -- Functional and nonfunctional realism: imagined spaces for the dead in northern dynasties China / Bonnie Cheng -- The visible and the invisible in a Southeast Asian world / Jan Mrázek -- Building beyond the temple: sacred centers and living communities in Medieval central India / Tamara I. Sears -- Urban space and visual culture: the transformation of Seoul in the twentieth century / Kim Youngna -- Unexpected spaces at the Shwedagon / Elizabeth Howard Moore -- The changing cultural space of Mughal gardens / James L. Wescoat jr. -- Old methods in a new era: what can connoisseurship tell us about Rukn-ud-Din? / Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis, Yana van Dyke -- Convergent conversations: contemporary art in Asian America / Margo Machida -- The icon of the woman artist: Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and the power of painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 / Jennifer Purtle -- Diasporic body double: the art of the Singh twins / Saloni Mathur -- Re-evaluating court and folk painting of Korea / Kumja Paik Kim -- Conflict and cosmopolitanism in "Arab" Sind / Finbarr Barry Flood -- In the absence of the Buddha: "aniconism" and the contentions of Buddhist art history / Ashley Thompson -- On Maurya art / Frederick Asher -- Art, agency, and networks in the career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) / Morgan Pitelka -- Shiva Nataraja: multiple meanings of an icon / Padma Kaimal -- Sifting mountains and rivers through a woven lens: repositioning women and the gaze in fourteenth-century East Java / Kaja M. McGowan -- Dead beautiful: visualizing the decaying corpse in nine stages as skillful means of Buddhism / Ikumi Kaminishi -- In the name of the nation: Song painting and artistic discourse in early twentieth-century China / Cheng-hua Wang -- Chinese painting: image-text-object / De-nin Deanna Lee -- Locating Tomyoji and its "six" Kannon sculptures in Japan / Sherry Fowler -- The unfired clay sculpture of Bengal in the artscape of modern South Asia / Susan S. Bean -- Malraux's Buddha heads / Gregory P.A. Levine.

Architecture -- Asia.

Brown, Rebecca M.

Hutton, Deborah S.

Blackwell companions to art history ; 3.

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(OCoLC)ocn754850796

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1405185376 (hardback)

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