... as a woman artist during an age of intense social reform. [email protected] © 2022 Asia Society 2022 Republican period (1911–1949) modernist art women artists consumer culture nationalism social reform In 1935 a Shanghai art association called the Storm Society (Juelanshe 決瀾社...

...Sunglim Kim Copyright © Asia Society 2014 Chaekgeori: Multi-Dimensional Messages in Late Joseon Korea sunglim kim Dartmouth College he rapid rise of consumer culture between the eigh...

... to appeal to the urban consumer. Instead, source materials become foregrounded with an increasing precision regarding their historical authenticity and relationship to cultural heritage. Within the five remaining design proposals that comprised Lei Guiyuan's Old Forms Made Anew (Jiuyang fanxin 舊樣翻新) from...

... to project a new identity. As European and American nations with colonial interests asserted their power to delineate knowledge along cultural and racial divides, it became crucial for Cixi to participate in the creation and dissemination of visual materials to maintain sovereignty. As I will show, foreign...

... this method, and hypothesizes an invention termed the component-model method of mirror manufacturing. Multiple transfers were performed on models and molds applied at different stages of the production process. The method was devised to satisfy the burgeoning needs of a growing number of consumers while...

...Pia Brancaccio Copyright © Asia Society 2014 Looking to the West: Stone Molds and Foreign Visual Models in Satavahana Material Culture (First–Second Century ce) pia brancaccio...

.... In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Southern Song fans, especially those produced in the imperial workshops, came to represent an obsolete culture, a culture steeped in imperial grandeur and largesse. The journey of the now-frozen image—the fan divorced from its physical and social environment—began...

... the interconnectedness between the social, aesthetic, and cultural histories of colors. By examining the contexts in which these two paintings were produced, we can appreciate how the coloration denotes the socioeconomic impacts of indigo and colorful textiles. Although scholar-painters often championed the use of ink...

... ceremonial tradition of clapping one's hands rhythmically to share joy and cheer one another. The Edo Ippon Tejime is an example of the intangible culture inherited from the Edo period. See www.3331.jp/about/en/ . 23. The operating body of 3331 Arts Chiyoda became a separate entity named “commandA...

... in population and prosperity. 11 The Jiangnan region, with its fertile farmland, local handicrafts, consumer culture, imperial patronage, and thriving publishing industry, especially flourished. 12 This yielded a disproportionate share of elite families, who vied with one another to maintain status...

... as- ing the mango water may also have conveyed to some a sumed the leadership of the Cultural Revolution and of sense of being medically treated or healed. Since the Bei- education was a fac¸ade behind which the People’s Liber- jing Textile Factory had consumed their mango, they ation Army, the most...

... of The present study explores the cultural significance such benevolent wishes as shoushan May your life be of the motif by examining three official porcelain de- as everlasting as a mountain or changshou long signs on which it occurs. More specifically, it relates the life3 motif to the Ming imperial park...

... and decoration of remarks in his insightful treatment of contemporary Thai a number of Bangkok monasteries during the first half religious and visual culture, ‘‘Generally, in Thai Buddhism of the nineteenth century forms a fascinating interlude ‘more is more’. Shrines . . . are sites of accretion...

... may be, but there is little doubt that the frustrations, differences of race and culture that he encountered during disappointments, and yearnings expressed in this text the formative years of his travel and artistic maturation, bear a close relationship to the passions that propelled as well...

... the artistic and representational styles with which the paintings were first executed, and serves well as a basis for cultural and historical reflections” (25). 9 Copyright © 2020 Asia Society 2020 Tibetan medicine vernacular iconometry science and religion Desi Sangyé Gyatso Janet...

... into modern type- tives to bear on this visual material. In addition, Screech face, has prompted an array of scholarly explorations of this has selected a broad array of anecdotal materials from newly accessible area of Edo-period culture. During the Edo-period sources to support his exploration...

... ascribe agency like this to a wall at all? Inspired by W. J. T. Mitchell's salient question “What Do Pictures Want?,” wherein he wants to “shift the location of desire” away from image producers and consumers and instead focus on “the images themselves,” it is my belief that much can be revealed by paying...

... Oliver Statler woodblock prints The Ligneous Aesthetic of the Postwar So¯ saku Hanga Movement and American Perspectives on the Modern Japanese Culture of Wood bert winther-tamaki University...

... in its dialectic relationship to Chinese imperial culture. Copyright © Asia Society 2015 Chinese calligraphy Wang Xizhi (303–ca. 361) Qianlong Emperor Song Huizong Dong Qichang Xingrangtie Ritual to Pray for Good Harvest imperial culture seals colophons authenticity letters copy...

... and material culture in early North India. More specifically, attention to expressions of an irenic Śaivism enables us to contextualize one of Daśapura's most famous, yet enigmatic, works of art: an ithyphallic male figure depicted with a double phallus ( liṅga ) ( Figure 1 ). Discovered at a site called...