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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., such as the drafting techniques later implemented in engineering schools during the modernizing reforms of the late nineteenth century. Copyright © 2020 Asia Society 2020 shuanggou materiality evidential research legibility stele rubbings In 1800 the public official and literatus Huang Yi 黃易 (1744...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 April 2012
... the sculpture legible. Would a veterans developed and staged a series of performances
formulaic understanding of iconography even have been inspired by their experiences with the works in the
important, or was the sculpture’s efficacy the most im- exhibition. By working with communities that are not
portant...
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Archives of Asian Art (2009) 59 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the Kadwaha Mihra¯ b Majah (d. 886), is similarly appropriate to its mosque
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context. The legible extant portion, on the left side of
The Kadwa¯ha¯ mosque’s mihra¯ b also suggests that the the mihra¯ b, is part...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Catherine Becker Copyright © Asia Society 2012 100 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART
capable of relaying this information—that it was specific workshops in which former prisoners and homeless
locality that rendered the sculpture legible. Would a veterans developed and staged a series...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 51–94.
Published: 01 April 2007
... seated in ra¯jalı¯la¯ - that invokes a particular power, such as the power to
sana. Among the six sets, Shimen Shan Cave 6 is the protect, to remove evil obstructions, to cure illnesses, to
best preserved and the only one with legible inscriptions grant worldly success, to ensure rebirth in a Buddhist...
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Archives of Asian Art (2006) 56 (1): 11–30.
Published: 01 April 2006
... inscription incised on the cliff face
been visible from any temple buildings that stood nearby. to the left of the entrance is still mostly legible. A group
The caves do not contain any Buddhist sculpture, nor are of figures is roughly outlined on the rear wall of the
they high enough for a visitor...
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Archives of Asian Art (2013) 63 (1): 59–86.
Published: 01 April 2013
... monk wearing the Geluk-style yellow hat (Figs.
meditation chamber Changsem Sherab Zangpo actually 23, 24). Based on a number of legible inscriptions under-
used, this very cramped chamber is fused to the vertical neath the mural’s portraits, including ones naming the
cliff wall, just to the right...
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (1): 65–78.
Published: 01 April 2024
... can also function as amulets. Often produced from a set of two peach-wood panels hung on door posts on which characters are written in a style that is too frenzied to be legible, it is said to have the function of protecting the household from evil spirts. In quotidian language, guihuafu becomes...
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (2): 153–168.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... Kirtipur is shown with a now barely legible label to the right of the town's tallest structure; perhaps there were labels next to Kathmandu and Patan as well. Rivers are depicted flowing throughout the bilampau ; a few are labeled in several places, enabling viewers to follow their winding...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 276–280.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., especially graduate students and Dunhuang specialists, but others will only find minor differences. Cai Weitang's comprehensive guide to grotto numbers appeared in Chinese in 2005; he consolidated his data in one, legible table. 17 That said, it is valuable to have detailed versions of the numbering...
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Archives of Asian Art (2009) 59 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the prayer hall, speaking zones—several words in the inscription are u-
two pillars in from the north wall (Fig. 10).28 Facing ending ‘‘Kannadizations’’ of Mara¯thı¯ a- or consonant-
the courtyard, both receive enough light to be clearly ending nouns.˙ The inscription may˙ be translated as
legible...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
...” Buddhism for political or cultural reasons) might be a slightly anachronistic projection of contemporary Han versus minority sensitivities or tensions onto the multiethnic Tang elite culture, and assumes that such offenses would be legible within formal styles and Buddhist themes. 9 Figure 4...
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 145–199.
Published: 01 October 2023
... in pairs on cardboard plates inscribed with captions in Löbbecke's large, neat handwriting. Framed to stage their owner's recollections like a large, unbound album for display to the folks back home, these well-crafted photos would render the sites and scenes of this Chinese city eminently legible...
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 107–143.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... Several features of the British Library folio unequivocally indicate that the group of seven figures occupying the upper right quadrant of the painting were intended to be legible as the rock images Babur describes encountering in Urvai. First, they are situated amid a topography of vertically oriented...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 131–170.
Published: 01 October 2021
... remained in the twelfth century. One pair is the Huguo temple 護國寺 that had a large, partially preserved stele whose date was no longer legible by the twelfth century. Su Bai identifies the stele with Caves 7 and 8, where the traces of a large stele remain attached to the facade. The second, the Chongjiao...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 143–187.
Published: 01 October 2017
... on a very dark field at the top of the painting with Lantsa (or Rañjanā) script, a formal script for Sanskrit dhāraṇī or prayer invocations (see Figure 18 ). This script, used for “invocatory” and “consecratory” purposes, 39 is not readily legible to most Tibetans, and so hardly interferes...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (2): 97–118.
Published: 01 October 2014
... it to be one character, thus tripod seal placed precisely in the middle with an inscrip-
the name of an unidentifiable ‘‘Gong Renbo’’ tion that I would read as ‘‘jun zhai the prefectural
However, Song did serve at Nanchang, the prefectural study. Zhai is legible; jun is inferred from its classifying
city...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 51–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., are easily legible, with little use of “flying white” technique (streaks of paper-white showing within rapidly executed strokes, common in the epistolary tradition) or narrow ligatures between strokes, which would not have reproduced well. 39 Puyi's preface to Twilight , which in its opening lines...
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Archives of Asian Art (2009) 59 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 April 2009
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is . . . three k (hundred?) sixteen devotees. . . .25
From the legible part of the inscription, we know
several important points. First, the stele was made...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 October 2018
... was an amorphous process; affixing meaning mattered less than juxtaposing multiple possibilities of phenomenal states. 70 Rather than viewing an elegant vessel covered with a smooth surface as a horizon of symbolic legibility, many of Qianlong's poetic verses magnified the indescribable, inscrutable content...
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