... their predecessors and peers in an emphasis on everyday life and found objects, and in bringing together the visual and verbal worlds exemplified by the Baroda (Vadodara)-based journal Vrishchik . 85. Rao, “Word and the World.” 86. Jussawalla, “view of a volcano.” 87. Chaudhuri, “Bombay Dreams...

...Susan N. Erickson Abstract Objects carved of jade often were placed in Han-dynasty burials of people of high rank. This article focuses on a small, shield-shaped (or “heart-shaped”) pendant frequently found near the deceased. The development of the type is examined through its appearance in tombs...

... with the discourse of world in art as articulated in this exposition. This was, namely, the “pseudo-objectivity” of the international: the discourse of heterogeneity found in the Venice Biennale concealed inequalities based on the power differentials of the hegemonic world-system. Figure 7. Okada Kenzō (1902...

... dimensions of écriture . Let us turn to the Anthology' s tortuous and nativistic historiography. To begin, note that Japanese collage was discovered twice: first as a found object in the late nineteenth century, and second as a concept in postwar Japan. This second discovery spurred a meteoric rise...

... to think of art within a global framework of nation-states and their cultures. The category “Chinese Art Objects” ( Zhongguo meishupin 中國美術品) hence came into being. The use of the five-character compound Z hongguo meishupin was most likely inspired by Bushell's Chinese Art . It was found only...

..., and economic upheavals resulting from this dy- In addition, we will see how King Jeongjo 正祖 (1752– namic spirit of consumerism. With an inflow of Chinese 1800, r. 1776–1800) used chaekgeori as both a per- books and foreign objects, mainly through tributary sonal and political propaganda tool. missions...

... Chinese objects and images to nineteenth-century Siam. The ideals of accretion and abundance characteristic of Thai Buddhism and the sinophilia of Rama III facilitated the construction of “Chinese-style” Thai temples. Glass paintings with scenes of the Pearl River Delta, Romance of the Three Kingdoms...

... of a bed. The transformation of a kui motif found in Chinese Designs into a handbag in Craft Art illuminates the shift from pattern to object within Pang's conception of the use of ornament (see Figure 1 ). The Shang-dynasty elephants improbably materialize as woven wool, made practical by its...

... with the Khitan mentioned above, where excavation has occurred We thus turn to a preliminary survey of the 1950s to in more recent decades, brick and wooden objects, begin this investigation. including pieces of Buddhist sculpture, were found by Kherlen-Bars is the largest of three...

... crowning object, the floral garland. Wherefrom came this particular gesture? The paper assigns the gesture's origin to the Greek Olympian. From this source a progression is traced eastward, to ancient Bactria, then Gandhāra, finally to Mathura during the Kushan Age. The progression reveals an evolutionary...

... at the rim .5 cm. Reproduced by permission of Cultural Relics Press. Aside from the vessels found at Yulin and nearby Fugu, the other painted bronzes excavated to date were full-size or even over-sized objects, making them unlikely to have been objects made only for burial. At least eight out...

..., ‘‘Brahmapuri: A Consideration of Metal Objects Found in many foreign models were transferred from metal into the Kundangar Hoard Lalit Kala 7 (1960): 29–75. PIA BRANCACCIO Looking to the West 41 7. S. B. Deo, ‘‘Roman Trade: Recent...

... at Leigutai Central. Chen notes that comparable monk images found at other sites, such as the carvings of monks at Xiangtangshan, do not depict such objects in active use.62 The performance of ritual circumambulation can also be related to patronage at Kanjingsi. Although the modern...

... houses of worship found in Singapore, from churches to Sikh temples to mosques ( Figure 15 ). Clearly, then, the ACM has thought carefully about showing connections between local religious art and those found in the rest of Asia. Perhaps stories about Singapore could be amplified further through objects...

... the privileged status usually afforded an artwork to allow examination from several different perspectives. Cultural biography, and more specifically object biography, has found wide use in anthropological/archaeological studies and Buddhist material culture studies have also recognized its utility. While art...

... are displayed on a low table in the courtyard. Furniture and objects are still out of place, and the diligent demeanor of the figures saturates the scene with a feeling of anticipation for an important event about to take place, all under the inquisitive gaze of a crane. Figure 5. Luo Ping (Chinese, 1733...

.... This ments. Grappling with the newly imported term ‘‘in- article focuses on the Lee Seung-taek of which the first stallation art’’ in the late 1980s, critics looked to Lee’s two were emblems: an artist who took materials or large-scale works as a presumptive point of historical objects originally made...

... artists partici- Swaminathan troubled the stereotypical cultural fram- pated in Bharat Bhavan’s art camps, thus performing ing of an adivasi worldview based on ritual praxis. the agenda of the museum itself. Swaminathan’s art Instead, his overarching agenda is aesthetic: the objects camps found urban...

... assortment of everyday objects. Miraculously, given the loss of so many artworks of this era, both paintings were found among a small stash of Qiu Ti's works discovered in 1989 and remain in the family's possession. In recent years Still Life has been featured in multiple exhibition catalogues, becoming...

... 1937, dramatically changed sive numbers of Chinese art objects in occupied resi- the lives of small-time entrepreneurs in the Chinese dences.58 After the Japanese retreated in 1945, Shang- Curios Market. Japanese troops feigned an attack on hai’s municipal workers found cases of jade screens...