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...Pia Brancaccio Copyright © Asia Society 2014 Looking to the West: Stone Molds and Foreign Visual Models in Satavahana Material Culture (First–Second Century ce) pia brancaccio...

...-known as their counterparts in Dunhuang, the complexes at Kizil and Kumutra, among others, have preserved equally invaluable material evidence of the vibrant interchange of goods, ideas, and cultural practices that took place across the entire region in the first millennium. These sites represent...

...Katherine Renhe Tsiang Abstract This study reexamines images and textual materials that can be related to the dating and iconography of caves at Yungang and Longmen and the historical transition between them. The transition is associated with the move of the Northern Wei capital from Pingcheng...

...Ellen Huang Abstract This article examines the phenomenon of yaobian 窯變, or kiln transformations, in late imperial and early modern China as material epistemology and material practice. By providing a genealogical analysis of documentations of yaobian in late imperial texts spanning the twelfth...

... immediate audience was the aficionados of such objects, scholars of epigraphy and evidential research. A technique that exactly conveyed the material condition of those aged rubbings was important to these scholars. Huang Yi chose the outline method called shuanggou , which traced the broken boundaries...

...Sherry D. Fowler Abstract During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a large eleventh-century bronze bell made in Korea became a grand attraction on the grounds of Onoe Shrine in Kakogawa, Japan. Although such bells are made of expensive material that require significant financial investment...

... of the carvings, and their sizes and materiality are significant in affecting the viewer's perception of and psychological response to the divine. By analyzing the unconventional design tactics adopted at the Great Buddha Bend and their effects on the perceived relationship between the carved transcendent realm...

... to weave media together, finding ways to celebrate and explain larger and newer corporate productions (book projects, larger monasteries). An intentional play of materiality (clay, cloth, book) emphasized by the inscriptions and performed in the pictorial compositions assists in the imaginative act...

... on a number of authentic “traces” ( ji ) of Su Shi that Weng had rediscovered over time. What was the significance of these rituals and how did they relate to the broader late-eighteenth-century interest in the past's material traces? This essay follows Weng Fanggang's quest for Su Shi across the empire...

...Kristopher W. Kersey Abstract This article advocates for a reevaluation of the origins of “collage” in global modernity. It does so by scrutinizing the materiality, historicization, and emergence of a medieval Japanese manuscript known as the Anthology of the Thirty-Six Poets . Rediscovered in 1896...

... with beg comparison.6 In many instances, Lee’s non-sculptures problems of freestanding, three-dimensional forms and were made almost concurrently or even slightly before materials in the 1960s and 1970s that he described as their supposed cognates. ‘‘non-sculptures Lee has been something of a cause...

...’ incorporation of reused and new architectural materials, which were carved materials and forms. from stone and which bear a stylistic resemblance to Although previous scholarship has largely treated their counterparts in the region’s surviving eleventh- to the mosques of Karı¯m al-Dı¯n and Khwa¯ja Jaha¯n...

... northern India were negotiations with, rather than eradi- In the end, there is little material evidence indicating cations of, the local traditions and infrastructure. that Islamization was the ultimate goal of the Ghurid These negotiations were surely facilitated by the inner incursions...

... in 2005. appeal of these prints: printmakers astutely avoided The San Diego area has large military facilities, and to material likely to offend, effectively marketed their works my surprise I discovered that about half of those present to foreigners, and benefited from the enthusiastic promo- were...

.... “ An Introduction to the Material Culture of Dunhuang Buddhism: Putting the Object in Its Place .” Asia Major 17 , no. 1 ( 2004 ): 1 – 13 . Fraser, Sarah E. “ The Importance of Home: Shanghai and Darmstadt in the Photography of Jin Shisheng .” In Relics, Jin Shisheng, and Modern Chinese Photography 陳...

... to Beijing, late Joseon Korea shared in the un- Third, we will see how the shift of Joseon society precedented ascent of a new consumer culture.2 While away from Confucian material restraints toward a the scale of the new materialism in Korea did not match consumer society impacted the nature and purpose...

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