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Image group commissioned by the nun Huiding, dated 489, Yungang Cave 17. Ph...
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in A Revisionist Reading of the Transition of Buddhist Cave-Making from Yungang to Longmen
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 12. Image group commissioned by the nun Huiding, dated 489, Yungang Cave 17. Photograph: courtesy of Joy Lidu Yi.
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One Painting, Two Emperors, and Their Cultural Agendas: Reinterpreting the Qingming Shanghe Painting of 1737
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 85–117.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of this commission, and none of the names of these painters appears on the final version of the paintings. Even though Kangxi was the commissioner of the project, the emperor delegated it to the two officials whom he favored and trusted with the realm of art, and he did not attempt to establish the institutional...
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Dhaka construction site. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University o...
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in How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 12. Dhaka construction site. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967.
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Telegram terminating contract, 27 March 1971. Louis I. Kahn Collection, Uni...
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in How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 13. Telegram terminating contract, 27 March 1971. Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1971.
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Babur, Akbar, and the Transformation of Gwalior's Rock-Hewn Tirthankaras
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 107–143.
Published: 01 October 2023
... this famed episode of iconoclasm in the Bāburnāma is well known to scholars, three paintings portraying Babur's trip to Gwalior that survive from the multiple illustrated manuscripts commissioned by Babur's grandson Akbar (r. 1556–1605) have eluded close examination. This article probes the divergent...
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Xu Bing's The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (1): 65–78.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a commissioned installation presented at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from October 2012 to January 2013. The article aims to model a form of extremely close analysis of new media art, which borrows vocabulary and methodologies from both art history and media studies. While making a timely contribution...
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The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan's Photography in Context
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Archives of Asian Art (2015) 65 (1-2): 1–24.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Mia Yinxing Liu Abstract This paper examines Lang Jingshan's landscape photography in its historical and political contexts. Tracing Lang's oeuvre from Shanghai to Chongqing to Taiwan, it also studies how the pictures were commissioned, made, and perceived. I argue that Lang's photographic art...
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The Literati, the Eunuch, and a Memorial: The Nelson-Atkins's Red Cliff Handscroll Revisited
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 25–49.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of an actual site, as well as the contemporary colophons, all point to a memorial function for the scroll. The early provenance of this handscroll indicates that Liang Shicheng, the eunuch at Emperor Huizong's court, was the one who commissioned it. The painting bears witness to the appropriation of the Li...
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Louis Kahn Architecture office, working on the model of the Assembly comple...
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in How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 8. Louis Kahn Architecture office, working on the model of the Assembly complex. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967.
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Louis Kahn Architecture Office, drawing of the Ayub Nagar Gate. Photograph:...
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in How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 11. Louis Kahn Architecture Office, drawing of the Ayub Nagar Gate. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967.
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National Assembly building after Liberation War, showing damage from crashe...
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in How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 14. National Assembly building after Liberation War, showing damage from crashed plane. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1972.
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Distinguishing “Set” from “Series” in Tibetan Painting
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 59–73.
Published: 01 April 2014
...-known examples of ings as well.1 This is particularly true in relation to a
a series depicting a Tibetan Buddhist incarnation lineage. number of works commissioned at the well-known
Ngor Evam Choden Monastery (ngor e waM chos ldan...
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How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 12. Dhaka construction site. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967. ...
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Keeping Up with the Rajputs: Appropriation and the Articulation of Sacrality and Political Legitimacy in Scindia Funerary Art
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 April 2011
...¯ traditions a newly as-
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cended king commissions his late father’s chatrı¯ in the
Fig. 3. Chatrı¯ of Maha¯ ra¯ ja¯ Jayaji Rao Scindia (r. 1843–1886).
dynastic necropolis in their state capital. Being memori...
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Published: 01 October 2024
), seismometer. Explosion dimensions variable, area dimensions 400 × 300 cm. Commissioned by the 7th JAPAN Ushimado International Art Festival. Photograph: courtesy of Yoshiro Shimono.
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Published: 01 October 2024
(1,300 m), seismograph with nine sensors, electroencephalograph, and electrocardiograph. Land area 15,000 sq. m. Commissioned by the Kassel International Art Exhibition. Photograph: Masanobu Moriyama, courtesy of Cai Studio.
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Published: 01 October 2024
(1,300 m), seismograph with nine sensors, electroencephalograph, and electrocardiograph. Land area 15,000 sq. m. Commissioned by the Kassel International Art Exhibition. Photograph: Masanobu Moriyama, courtesy of Cai Studio.
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One or Two , Repictured
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 April 2012
... meaning and about the emperor’s motivations for repeat
Iother than formal court or ritual ancestor portraits, commissions.1
offer a unique glimpse of the depicted ruler in addition Although the various iterations of the composition
to physical appearance. Unburdened by the abiding con- have all been...
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Votive Paintings of the Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō at Naritasan Shinshōji Temple
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins University
n 1814 a resident of Edo 江戸 named Uematsu Cho¯bei Fudo¯ Myo¯o¯, the Immovable King of Light (Acalana¯tha).3
I (dates unknown) commissioned from the Actors in the family still use the house name ‘‘Naritaya’’
ukiyo-e print artist Utagawa...
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Child of the Cranes: Sesshū's Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons and the Painterly Profession in Muromachi Japan
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... 81 I propose that Ōuchi Masahiro may very well have commissioned Sesshū to paint the Birds and Flowers screens in commemoration of this fateful coalition, forged through bonds of loyalty and blood, that played an instrumental role in securing Masahiro's standing as a regional potentate...
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