... order. Copyright © 2019 Asia Society 2019 WAWA Project Masato Nakamura 中村政人 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake Community Art Relational Aesthetics Art after Disaster On March 11, 2011, the Tōhoku area in northeast Japan was hit by an unprecedented triple disaster: the “Great East...

.... That may be part of the reason why Yashiro accepts Like Yashiro, Faure believes that any study of Buddhist Ho¯ gai’s Kannon as Compassionate Mother as a work of art must take into account religious and phenomeno- modern art but rejects it as a Buddhist painting. After...

... Sichuan has also Fig. 1. Map of Sichuan. Drawn by author. 52 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART Fig. 2. Map of Southeastern Sichuan. Drawn by author. become known as a great repository of artistic and ar- clusters of rupestral sites dated to the Tang and after cheological treasures from China’s...

...: unlike previous universal expositions, it showcased solely art, and not industrial objects. For the promoters of Japanese art in the Biennale, however, this represented a hurdle, as in the common view of commentators such as Edmond de Goncourt and Louis Gonse—and, after him, the Italian critic Vittorio...

... blossoms evoked the beauty of the fallen Song dynasty. Figure 6. Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan (ca. 1235–after 1301), Peonies and Butterfly , Yuan dynasty, late 13th century. Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 55 × 96.9 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz...

... movement term to identify the quality of an articulated wood sen- was first driven home for me when I gave a lecture on sibility that was a prominent feature of postwar So¯ saku this topic to a group of some sixty members of the Asian prints. To be sure, there were many reasons for the Arts Council of...

... foundations in the light of textual sources and later depictions of such towers in Han-dynasty art. Early textual references to these structures use a variety of terms, including que , guan 觀, xiangwei 象魏, jique 冀闕, and diehuang 絰皇. 10 The precise distinctions among these terms are often unclear...

... enabling the objects ‘‘After all, the students selected were art students and to exist in a shared space and time—which he termed had a trained eye1 Their initial efforts form the core ‘‘contemporaneity He articulated this position in the of the Roopankar collection, an entire wing devoted to important...

..., Zhejiang. After serving in the Yuyongjian 182 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART for a period of time, he received his first official title of as imperial guard for Zhu Qiyu (the future Jingtai em- Jinyizhengqianhu (Battalion Commander of peror) when Zhu Qiyu was still the Prince of Cheng in the...

...- enemy; in the painting, they career straight toward ing reality and creating a more socially engaged form of the viewer. The rather stylized, almost caricature-like art. In the article Mukai published after his return from...

...- sions, but after the outbreak of the Korean War in porary art from the end of the Korean War to the mid- 1950 he soon fled to the South, where he joined the 1960s, the Kukcho˘ n and its juries defined sculpture as South Korean army. After the war came to a provisional discrete stone or metal objects...

... Workers Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams 2 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART lenge to the established authority.2 Students took to the haustible source of strength and a spiritual atom bomb streets. of infinite power4 they filed onto the campus. In the From...

... Buddha, the two bod- pieces have been published frequently, and are included in hisattvas who canonically or customarily form a triad with most textbooks on Japanese art history, but with little that Buddha, and, flanking these, two of Shaka's original thought to how they may have functioned as a...

... the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Figure 5. Jin Chushi (Chinese, active late twelfth c.), King Enma , before 1195. One from a set of ten hanging scrolls depicting the Ten Kings of Hell, ink and color on silk, 129.5 × 49.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.76.293...

.... Fangshan, Beijing. By author. 44 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART images that complemented the contents of the other the early seventh century. At present it is the only one caves completed not long afterward. There is every indi- out of nine caves at Shijing Mountain that is furnished cation that all the...