...Rob Linrothe Abstract This is a review article of Janet Gyatso's 2015 award-winning book, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. The art-historical aspects of the book—mainly confined to the first chapter, “Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical...

... Hobsbawm's insight, a kind of “invented tradition,” a fictional history of practice and artifact that runs as some thought it ought to have, rather than as it did. By looking into all the three major components of forgeries in early modern China that are referenced throughout Zhang Taijie's catalog—(1...

..., the Brooklyn kalamkari represents a uniquely cosmopolitan worldview from early-seventeenth-century South India. In this essay I discuss the makings of this particular worldview in the context of early modern processes of globalization and state-formation. By engaging with the work of Indologists Johan Huizinga...

...Ellen Huang Abstract This article examines the phenomenon of yaobian 窯變, or kiln transformations, in late imperial and early modern China as material epistemology and material practice. By providing a genealogical analysis of documentations of yaobian in late imperial texts spanning the twelfth...

... sultanates was hegemonic. The early modern Deccan was culturally rich and religiously pluralistic, with a shared visual repertoire of architectural forms. Therefore, in conception, execution, and ornament, the architecture of the early Marathas was exactly the same as that of their sultanate overlords...

... such polychrome ornamentation was desirable in early China, reconciling those motives with our quite different modern sensibilities. amiller@southwestern.edu © 2022 Asia Society 2022 Bronze vessels lacquer oil paint binding media early China history of color inlay technical art history...

..., which uses lunar months and solar sidereal years, hints at an aspiration among successive mahārāṇā s to instill in governance a spirit of rational and standardized order, an indication of early modernity. Two little-known scrolls from Mewar establish that Ari Singh II was not the first ruler...

... to be at work, albeit in a very different context, in early modern Japanese woodblock prints, as Julie Nelson Davis has shown. The texts and images of beauties created by Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (ca. 1753–1806) are strategically employed to make the audience believe that they are given privileged access...

... cultures from Asian port cities—Batavia, Guangzhou, Macao, Manila, and Nagasaki—reveal the diverse people who worked and lived in such transnational spaces. The “Court and Company” gallery showcases the connections between South Asia and the world in the early modern and colonial periods through...

...—of the late medieval compiled the monumental five-volume series Rinpa Kaiga and early modern periods, but he will undoubtedly be Zenshn (The Collected Works of Rimpa; 1977-8o),Yamane's remembered for his work on the Rinpa school, particularly Rinpa framework was orthodoxy, and his disciples had set...

... and the fluores- Although Cahill offers a refreshing debunking of tired ideas cence of eighteenth-century urban painters who followed about "brushwork" and "self-expression," the canonical in his wake, as well as the intimations of early modernism masters of the literati tradition continue to steal the show...

... in modern and contemporary Chinese art entailed much more than the pejorative connotation as a judgment of evacuated aesthetic value. 7 Under the ideological conditions of early socialist and Reform-era China, the significance of decoration, a project both intellectual and industrial that was partially...

..., Tōfukumon'in , 10–11 ; Lillehoj, Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan , 131–44 . 62. Tōfukumon'in became the most influential woman in the imperial court after the death of Go-Mizunoo's mother in 1630. She then started to play a crucial role in some political situations. It is worth noting...

... the fact that it has been sixty years since Wescher introduced collage japonaise, given the hegemony of American modernist painting in the 1960s as well as the vociferous backlash against early forays into comparative discussions of Western modernism, 93 the type of project Kōmoto suggests could...

... and Textile Studies 2. London : Hali , 1986 . Based on the special sessions of the 4th International Conference on Oriental Carpets, London , 1983 . Robinson, Cynthia . In Praise of Song: The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005–1134 A.D. The Medieval and Early Modern...

... of Choso˘ n period. He participated early twentieth century), in Han’guksa insik kwa yo˘ ksa in So˘hwa hyo˘phoe, a leading painting and calligraphy circle. iron (Perception of Korean history As one of the five masters of modern seal carving, O also and theories of history), ed. Kim Yongso˘ p kyosu cho...

...-dynasty officials who failed to save the dynasty from collapse. 65 As with modernization movements throughout the globe in the early twentieth century, what was modern was defined against an inadequate and antiquated past. Thereafter it became increasingly rare to valorize the deteriorated material...

... and Sino-Japanese dialogue and commerce: in the forging of a new mode of art publishing in Japan and in China, by Zheng Wuchang and others, that presented the creation of art history as a pedagogical means of modern nation building; 2 and in the promotion by modernists north and south of early modern...

...." ern India during the eleventh and twelfth centuries,i4 had I am convinced by the temples' inscriptions, geograph- urban centers of authority at Tafijavar and Uraiyur (with- ic distribution, and architectural diversity that temple in the city limits of modern Tirucirapalli) in the early...

... . 8. See, e.g., ibid., pl. 70. 7. See, e.g., Jin Weidong, Ming Qing fengsuhua , pl. 9 and 69. 6. Regarding the notion of theatricality and its use in art-historical studies, see Eck and Bussels, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture . 5. The phrase “a realm...