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The Component-Model Method of Mirror Manufacture in 300 bce China

Kin Sum (Sammy) Li
Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 257–276.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4229728
Published: 01 October 2017
...Kin Sum (Sammy) Li Abstract In approximately 300 bce , a new method was developed in the design and manufacturing technologies of the bronze mirror production industry in China that changed the ways in which producers cast mirrors. This article utilizes four mirrors as examples to illustrate...
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Looking to the West: Stone Molds and Foreign Visual Models in Satavahana Material Culture (First–Second Century ce)

Pia Brancaccio
Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 33–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aaa.2014.0012
Published: 01 April 2014
... manufacturing methods.8 finds of Roman plaster casts at Begram in Afghanistan The terracotta bullae from Ter constitute an excel- confirm that in South Asia too, molds and casts func- lent example of how new technologies and imported tioned as artistic repertoires and moved with trade...
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An Art of Transformation: Reproducing Yaobian Glazes in Qing-Dynasty Porcelain

Ellen Huang
Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 133–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-7162228
Published: 01 October 2018
... Asia Society 2018 kiln transformations ( yaobian ) glazes Jun ware Qing-dynasty ceramics Qianlong material culture copper-red glazes porcelain The Tiangong kaiwu 天工開物 (Exploitation of the Works of Nature; 1637), the widely cited late-Ming encyclopedia detailing technology...
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Trophies of Trade: Collecting Nineteenth-Century Sino-Filipino Export Paintings

Florina H. Capistrano-Baker
Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 237–256.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4229719
Published: 01 October 2017
... vision and ambition. Through global exchange, the early American republic expanded its horizons, inventing, producing, and using new materials and technologies. Machine-made cordage made of abaca was an American invention, endowing the Massachusetts merchants who engaged in its manufacture and trade...
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The New Emperor's Clothes: Indigo and Allusion in Two Hongzhi Year One Paintings

Quincy Ngan
Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-10329547
Published: 01 April 2023
... became prevalent during the Yuan dynasty. Hu, Shuyi pian , caobu shang juan ; Z. Huang, Hongzhi da Ming Xinghua fu zhi , juan 12 ; C. Wu, Sancai guangzhi , juan 595 . 67. Zurndorfer, “Cotton Textile Manufacture and Marketing,” 702 ; Riello, Cotton , 41–42 . 68. Zurndorfer...
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Art and Technology in a Chinese Gold Cicada Plaque

Sarah Laursen, Donna Strahan
Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 43–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aaa.2014.0013
Published: 01 April 2014
...Sarah Laursen; Donna Strahan Copyright © Asia Society 2014 Art and Technology in a Chinese Gold Cicada Plaque sarah laursen Middlebury College donna...
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Jiajing Emperor and His Auspicious Words

Maggie C. K. Wan
Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 95–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/aaa.2007.0003
Published: 01 April 2007
... continuous move- object is of human manufacture or not does not ment. Moreover, spirit writing and the motifs concerned affect its potency or authenticity. What matters share a common emphasis on spontaneous formation. is that the omen be appropriate, accurate, and By ‘‘spontaneous’’ I mean...
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One Painting, Two Emperors, and Their Cultural Agendas: Reinterpreting the Qingming Shanghe Painting of 1737

Cheng-hua Wang
Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 85–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-8124988
Published: 01 April 2020
... for the Qianlong court]. Guoli Taiwan daxue Meishushi yanjiu jikan 國立台灣大學美術史研究集刊 33 ( 2012 ): 225 – 69 . Chen Yun-ru 陳韻如 . “ Zhizuo zhenjing: Chonggu Qing yuanben Qingming shanghe tu zai Yongzheng chao huayuan zhi huashi yiyi ” 製作真境:重估清院本 《清明上河圖》 在雍正朝畫院之畫史意義 [Manufacturing a realm of truth...
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Painting Bronze in Early China: Uncovering Polychromy in China's Classical Sculptural Tradition

Allison R. Miller
Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 1–53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-9577685
Published: 01 April 2022
.... Paints across the ancient world were generally manufactured from two basic components: colorants and a binding agent. By the Han dynasty, Chinese artisans utilized used ground mineral and vegetal pigments as well as chemically manufactured pigments (such as lead white, Han blue, Han purple, etc...
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Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves

Sarah E. Fraser
Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 276–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-9953476
Published: 01 October 2022
... technology. Jerome Silbergeld assumes the herculean task of surveying the field of Dunhuang art-historical studies, charting shifting scholarly opinions from Stein to Wong. A century of scholars have focused on the art and materiality of Dunhuang; in the last twenty-five years a methodological turn has...
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In Defiance of CollageAssembling Modernity, ca. 1112 ce

Kristopher W. Kersey
Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 1–32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4342384
Published: 01 April 2018
... problematizes the material's modern valence. As with other East Asian papermaking traditions, Japanese paper ( washi 和紙) is distinguished by several material and technological characteristics (distinctive features of which are the length and strength of the bast fibers and the addition into the pulp...
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O Sech'ang's Compilation of Kŭnyŏk sŏhwa sa 槿域書畵史 (History of Korean painting and calligraphy) and the Publication of Kŭnyŏk sŏhwa ching 槿域書畵徵 (Biographical records of Korean painters and calligraphers)

Hong Sunpyo
Archives of Asian Art (2013) 63 (2): 155–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aaa.2014.0002
Published: 01 October 2013
... scholars to respond to An’s call to arms. (Ch’ongdokpu) promoted research on historical places and the study of government manufacturing in Korea O Sech’ang’s Biography and the Political in an attempt to fundamentally recast traditional culture Background of Ku˘ nyo˘kso˘hwa sa as a colonial culture...
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To Fill “a Gap in Indian History”: An Archival Reckoning with the Term Company Painting

Holly Shaffer, Yuthika Sharma
Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (1): 79–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-11169093
Published: 01 April 2024
... This was also possible due to new and old technologies of reproduction, including engraving, etching, lithography, photography, and series of paintings that could be traced on paper, mica, and glass. 16 Those colonial arts therefore mark a transition from the courtly tradition to a more popular, commercial...
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Opening Up: Photography and the City in Nineteenth-Century China

Catherine Stuer
Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (2): 145–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-10927904
Published: 01 October 2023
... Pinney, Tania Sheehan, Luke Gartlan, and Roberta Wue have variously called not only for a rewriting of narratives of global photography conceived as Western technology driven by Euro-American individuals, but also to heed the return of old dichotomies as reified claims of cultural alterity assigned...
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Underground Wooden Architecture in Brick: A Changed Perspective from Life to Death in 10th Through 13th-Century Northern China

Wei-Cheng Lin
Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 3–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aaa.2011.0005
Published: 01 April 2011
..., areas traditionally imitation was understood and realized in actual tomb known for their manufacture of bricks and development constructions. Similarly, the term fang mugou, ‘‘imitat- of brickwork techniques. This style of tomb appeared in ing wooden structure has in the past been employed the 9th...
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How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka

Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum
Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 55–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-10329569
Published: 01 April 2023
... deepened animosity. In 1949 Pakistan refused to devalue its currency in step with India and England, precipitating a trade ban with India. East Pakistan lost its primary market for jute and its primary source of manufactured goods, further hobbling the economy. 55 Along with unequal revenue distribution...
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Gateways to Power and Paradise: Twin Towers in Early Chinese Architecture

Li-kuei Chien
Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 67–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4342411
Published: 01 April 2018
... : Wenwu , 1980 . Zhou Zumo 周祖謨 , ed. Erya jiaojian 爾雅校箋 [ Examples of refined usage, edited and annotated ]. Jiangsu : Jiangsu jiaoyu , 1984 . 50. For discussions of Han-dynasty building technology, see Lin, “Performing Center in Vertical Rise,” 104–6 . 51. Liu Q., “Han...
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Japan's Venice: The Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the “Pseudo-Objectivity” of the International

Ignacio Adriasola
Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 209–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-4229710
Published: 01 October 2017
... relevance: The international character of the fine arts [ belle arte ] increases parallel to the development of communication and information technologies. But it also often occurs that a movement launched by a group of artists belonging to a single country reverses conventions and opens a new horizon. I...
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An Appetite for Flames in the Japanese Art World during the 1980s

Bert Winther-Tamaki
Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (2): 169–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-11483470
Published: 01 October 2024
... ecologists, marked the onset of the Anthropocene. 8 How can contemporary Japanese art be situated in this environmental history? To be sure, with some exceptions, the outlook of fire-burning artists was generally not Promethean, in the sense of aiming for mastery of ever-more-powerful technologies...
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The Shield-Shaped Jade Pendant: A Singular Han-Dynasty Type and Its Later Revivals

Susan N. Erickson
Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 157–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-7162237
Published: 01 October 2018
... in their pendants, yet variations are noticeable. The two pendants from M2 preserve a greater sense of the shield shape with side appendages, but overall they seem less appealing because of their tendency toward rigid symmetry compared with many of Western Han manufacture. 43 In the pendant from M6 the shield...
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