...Quincy Ngan Abstract This article contextualizes the visual intrigue that was created by the fifteenth-century Chinese poet and painter Sun Ai (ca. 1452–1536) when he broke from convention by using indigo blue to color the leaves of a cotton plant and a mulberry branch in a pair of paintings now...

...-Tibetan Buddhism and to her personal response versus gold on indigo paper, respectively. Bing Huang to seeing such an object totally removed from its ritual engaged the three-dimensionality of her chosen object, environment. To her, the Nepalese Bodhisattva ‘‘felt a small Tang-dynasty seated bodhisattva...

... Fig.5. Left, ‘‘The Universal Gateway of Bodhisattva Avalokites´ vara Chapter Twenty-Five of the Lotus Su¯ tra (Miaofa lianhua jing Guanshiyin pusa pumen-pin), with an appended Heart Su¯ tra (Xin jing). 1432. Ming dynasty. China. Accordion-fold book. Gold ink on indigo-dyed paper. Palace copy...

... with sketches of Manila dated July 1849. 56 In addition to painted images, company records illuminate the economic contexts of self-fashioning. Manila exports to the US in 1852 aboard thirty-seven American vessels included cargoes of sugar, hemp, hides, sappanwood, cordage, coffee, indigo, rattan, cigars...

... collections. 136 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Jay Xu, former Chairman, Dept. of Asian and Ancient Art 1. Artist unknown. Jingoji sutra. Japan. 12th c. Handscroll; gold and silver pigment on indigo-dyed paper; 25.8 Â 31.1 cm. Art Institute...

... Hiroshi, designer (Japan), Section from the Flower Garland Sutra (Kegon-kyo¯ ), known as the Nigatsudo¯ yake-kyo¯ , Nara period (710–794), 744–752. Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll, silver on indigo-dyed paper, 86 Â 110 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014.905. Gift of Sylvan Barnet...

...23. Section of Chapter 17 from the “Ten Practices” Volume of the Flower Ornament Sutra (J: Daihōkōbutsu kegonkyō; Skt: Avatamsaka-sutra), Japan, Heian period (794–1185), second half of eleventh century. Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on light indigo-dyed paper with gold...

... Version, Japan, 12th century. Hanging scroll, gold and silver on indigo paper, image 24.8 Â 19.7 cm, mount...

...- cent analyses conducted by the British Museum on a few Begram fragments corroborate the Deccan prove- nance of these exquisite objects. Faint traces of indigo...

... Burnt Sutra, 744. Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; silver ink on indigo-dyed paper, calligraphy 23.34 × 111.13 cm; mounting 84.93 × 117.32 cm. Portland Art Museum, 2018.76.1. Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles. Unknown artist (Japanese), Illustrated Competition between Poets of Different...

... are confronted with a colorful—red, indigo, green, brown, and yellow—set of panoramas that do indeed reflect a highly cosmopolitan mind-set, one keen to visualize “the other” on the basis of surprisingly accurate ethnographical knowledge. Although dated to the early 1600s based partly on prevailing fashions...

... was dedicated in 574, and viving sutra texts were sponsored by Buddhist devotees the inscription of the burial cave tells us that Lu Jingsong and may also have been handwritten by them, often using died in 573. Indeed, it is tempting to see the burial cave such luxurious materials as gold ink on indigo...

... of postindustrial nostalgia over the conflict between the machined object and artisanal craftsmanship. At the Shanghai design convention in 1937 Lei Guiyuan also exhibited works that appropriated the bold graphic properties of resist-dyed indigo cloth. 79 While the call to create folk art was never as strong...

... in Postwar Japanese Art .” In Tokyo, 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde , edited by Doryun Chong , 94 – 119 . New York : Museum of Modern Art , 2012 . Higashiyama Kaii 東山魁夷 . “Aizome no bi” 藍染の美 [ Indigo-dyed beauty ]. Geijutsu Shinchō 14 , no. 3 ( 1963 ): 60 – 65 . Hoffman, Katherine...