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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 87–109.
Published: 01 April 2018
... relationship between illusion, matter, and the mind that is thematized in the cave and in liturgies like that by Zongmi. Engaging with Hans Belting's recent work on image anthropology, this essay concludes by suggesting that the cave, its source texts, and related repentance rituals collectively insist...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2019
... community. The ritualists invariably invoke a special relationship with the nāga s, whom they enjoin to rectify undesirable conditions. This connection between image and text reveals a centuries-long process by which the monastic community developed an association with weather regulation that was contingent...
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (1): 65–78.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to Xu Bing scholarship by focusing on an understudied work in his oeuvre, it also adds new lines of inquiry: first, with regard to text-image reciprocity, which continues to be a focal point in studies of contemporary Chinese art; and second, with regard to animation-calligraphy reciprocity, which begs...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... another rosy picture of the deceased prince as a good official. Eventually, the image and text were used in tandem to create a perfect image of the deceased. 23. Silbergeld, Chinese Painting Style , 36 . 24. A classic study of this subject matter is still Gulik, Sexual Life in Ancient...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 243–268.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Sarah Richardson Abstract How can visual texts, closed books, and painted images work together in Buddhist temples to reinforce one another and act upon viewers? The fourteenth-century murals at the Tibetan temple of Shalu integrate pictures with long passages of Tibetan texts and select...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to revive national culture. Both cases involved hitherto unnoticed repetitions of text and images. By analyzing the mechanism informing these repetitions, this article reveals the entangled history behind the distinctive articulations of “Chinese art” in Britain and in China. Moreover, the analysis shows...
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (2): 129–151.
Published: 01 October 2024
...) and the Ten Kings of Hell which, next to the pictorial images, contains lengthy texts praising each king of hell and hymns explaining the various hells. A comparison of the texts at the Great Buddha Bend and those found in manuscripts belonging to the long recension of The Scripture on the Ten Kings...
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Archives of Asian Art (2006) 56 (1): 11–30.
Published: 01 April 2006
... texts on paper or silk as a means of that the inscription refers to the Dipariikara group on the accruing merit was a common Buddhist practice, exactly rear wall of the Shuiyu Si cave-temple, especially since analogous to the making of Buddhist images. Many sur- the Dipathkara sculpture...
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Archives of Asian Art (2003) 53 (1): 71–104.
Published: 01 April 2003
... as the purposeful realization of goals that were set for one image. At the right the bamboo stalks emerge from and part of Song imperial painting production, we can under- wrap around the earthen bank or rock face as if they were stand Song texts about Huizong and his Academy in a new folded-paper strips...
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Archives of Asian Art (2010) 60 (1): 43–78.
Published: 01 April 2010
... to the End of Dharma was Buddha niches to the very choice of the cave’s name. couched in both word and image. Specifically, the The Dazhusheng Cave, literally meaning the ‘‘Great Dazhusheng program retains some texts familiar from Cave of Residing Holiness can be read as a descriptive the stone scripture...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the perennial problem of image-text tension. It is commonly understood that iconology requires texts. 7 But we should be aware that analysis of these triads and of Han images at large is corroborated only with partial and sometimes tangential textual evidence. Jerome Silbergeld has noted...
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 63–82.
Published: 01 April 2001
... likely the lack of such) opment, especially undermining the significance of differ- between images and texts, has often reduced an image to ent types of presentation. little more than an illustration of a text. The approach is Considering a different type of textual evidence, how- especially...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 107–151.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., extolled by many, was recorded inscriptions express doubts or report any discord between in Jinling fanchazhi (Gazetteer of Buddhist the text and the images,29 which suggests that the images monasteries in Jinling).18 Hua luohan (The Arhats), of this album must have matched the content of the sutra...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of scholars interested in ancient texts and calligraphy. The book included woodblock-printed images of ten different sets of early rubbings dating from the ninth to the seventeenth century ( Figure 1 ). Each set of images was followed by efforts to transcribe the rubbing texts, which often were only partially...
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Archives of Asian Art (2013) 63 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., ed., Xuanhua Liao mu, vol. 2, color pl. 35. drinking tea and studying Daoist scriptures as a practice embedded in the pictorial space (Fig. 13). It is a purely of cultivating the living body.49 In the mortuary con- symbolic image of three men representing Confucian- text, the symbolic meaning...
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Archives of Asian Art (2004) 54 (1): 7–22.
Published: 01 April 2004
... images properly into their social context" (p. 9).2 Sex and focus on only a few topics that are central to the overall the Floating World was preceded a year earlier by a Japanese approach of this work. version of the text, Shunga: Katate deYomu Edo no E (Shunga: Screech issues several warnings...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 81–105.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Introduction qianbo Wenshushili pusa [here- after the Thousand-armed Man˜ jus´r Fig. 1) and exam- he nature of the dialogue between text and image ines the reasons behind its pairing with Avalokites´vara...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 October 2018
... by unifying surface and depth for the production of porcelain material in general. Adapted as a set of woodblock prints during the first year of the Jiaqing emperor's reign (1796–1820), the twenty ink-on-silk pairs of text-image paintings were translated visually and textually as a canonical “how-to” craft...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 April 2021
... is a complete but eroded image of Cāmuṇḍā/Carcikā, which Saraswati described with some detail on the same page; 58 and the fourth is a Śivaliṅga. 46. Chattopadhyaya, “Religion in a Royal Household,” 237 . 47. From Sanskrit texts David N. Lorenzen derived that a kāpālika “eats from a skull...
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 107–143.
Published: 01 October 2023
... reference to image-smashing in the text is metaphorical. When Babur decides to renounce and repent for his alcohol consumption, he describes the consequent breaking of his drinking equipment as follows: “My servants, in conformity with the felicitous command, broke to smithereens—like the idols that, God...
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