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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 (2014) 64 (2): 191–209.
Published: 01 October 2014
...: Brass Images, Artisans and 39. Kapur, Contemporary Indian Artists, 187. Audiences Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 37 (Spring 40. The above list of participating artists follows the 2000): 147–65. order of artists presented in the Group 1890...
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Archives of Asian Art (2013) 63 (1): 59–86.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the Lonpo (hereditary minister) of Karsha, were unable Zangpo.15 It refers to him not with the honorific title of to identify images at Karsha which, I argue, also depict Changsem but only as the Sherab Zangpo of To¨ d (stod), Sherab Zangpo. I believe the explanation for this con- a geographic designation...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (2): 121–154.
Published: 01 October 2019
... modernism. As the culmination of a broader intellectual project, the design compendia intertwine the modern study of archaeology with new standards for anthropological fieldwork, mapping a transition from antiquarian accumulation of known collections to the firsthand investigation and rigorous documentation...
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Archives of Asian Art (2009) 59 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of temple de- architectural reuse in the context of Islamic state forma- secration and of image reconsecration by non-Islamic tion and expansion in South Asia. kings. He thereby began the process of contextualiz- Such an unfaltering gaze on the part of lay and ing the events...
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Archives of Asian Art (2013) 63 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Jeehee Hong Copyright © Asia Society 2013 Exorcism from the Streets to the Tomb: An Image of the Judge and Minions in the Xuanhua Liao Tomb No. 7 jeehee hong Syracuse University...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2018
... . Deitch, Jeffrey . “ The Culture of Collage .” In Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection , edited by Jeffrey Deitch , 24 – 77 . Athens, Greece : DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art , 2004 . Didi-Huberman, Georges . “ Before the Image, before Time: The Sovereignty of Anachronism...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 April 2022
....” 86 The incident must have been an uncanny experience as the photographic image is the exact reverse of the mirror image. While in a mirror one is accustomed to viewing oneself as an inverse reflection, the photographic image reveals how one appears to the rest of the world. 87 The use of mirror...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 157–190.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of decoration on the surface of the shield and the design of the side appendages varied. Nonetheless, the range of motifs is extremely limited—abstract forms that look like clouds or qi 氣 vapors, and images of creatures, including birds, dragons, and something with feline and dragon attributes. Only one...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of allegiances to ancient Tang-dynasty painters and auspicious icons, which in fact are visual puns on Chinese characters, amount to a visual culture in which language and image function not only on the level of semantics, but also through “illocutionary repetition.” 68 Likewise, fired ceramics, rather than...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 103–120.
Published: 01 April 2019
...), 1213. National Central Library of Taiwan, Taipei (402.52.10204). What constituted an accurate “portrait” of Su Shi was in and of itself an ancient literary and pictorial trope that had appeared during Su's lifetime. Issues of self-imaging and self-perception were continually addressed in Su Shi's...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (2): 153–185.
Published: 01 October 2016
... 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...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 33–46.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and Translations.” 22. Haq, “Influence of Persian on Marathi.” 23. Bose, Royal Umbrellas of Stone , 4 . 24. Ibid., 15–16. 25. Ibid., 8. 26. Maharashtra State Gazetteers , 795 . 27. Ibid. 28. Sohoni, “Gaining Pious Merit and Creating Images of Paradise...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 119–149.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., uniting all media that bear traces of the artist's brush. 7 Figure 1. Yan Zhenqing (Chinese, 709–785), Record of the Altar of the Immortal of Mount Magu (detail), rubbing of a stele dated 771. Ink on paper, 26.5 × 15.5 cm. Tokyo National Museum. Photograph: TNM Image Archives. Figure 1...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 37–61.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... onkan 音菅) on the top of the bell that helps modify the tone, and the dragon-head loop (K. yongdu , J. ryūzu 竜頭) that connects to it. 23 The earliest surviving Korean temple bell is from Sangwonsa 上院寺, Gangwon Province, and dated to 725; it has relief images of apsaras playing instruments...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 151–171.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., “Pietà (Mother of Sorrows),” in Chong, Christianity in Asia , 52 . 47. Chong, “Sri Lankan Ivories for the Dutch and Portuguese.” 46. Ibid. 45. Chong, “Cabinet with Images of Adam and Eve,” in Chong, Christianity in Asia , 228 . 44. Meegama, “Local and the Global...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 67–86.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... Some archaeologists and philologists believe that images of watchtowers appeared on oracle bones and were used as radicals for the earliest forms of the characters referring to city walls, such as cheng 城, guo 郭, and yong 墉. Even the earliest forms of the character que were created during...
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Archives of Asian Art (2009) 59 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the functioned as the hub of state-sponsored religious, polit-˙ pre-existing monastery and temples (Figs. 15, 16).At ical, and economic activities.4 Ranod the temples accompanying the mathas were dis- The inscriptional and architectural record from mantled, the divine image adorning...
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Archives of Asian Art (2015) 65 (1-2): 117–137.
Published: 01 October 2015
... Xingrangtie and Its Paradoxes     123 Fig. 4.  The Qianlong and Wu Ting rub­bings. Left: rub­bing from Model calligraphies from the Three Rarities Hall (Sanxi tang fatie), 1747–50. After Robert E. Harrist Jr., “A Letter from Wang Hsi-chih and the Culture of Chi­nese Calligraphy,” in The Embodied Image...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (2): 165–190.
Published: 01 October 2014
... to the imagination, not to documenting objective fact. That is, Liu while discussing sketching in terms of look- ing (kan 看) and recording (ji 記) as objective processes, noted: ‘‘in collecting images it’s most important to rely on those that are accumulated every day in an ordinary way, so that as you observe...