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... boat is the act of collecting pieces for display and appraisal—an act akin to modern curatorial discernment. The selection of works that accompanied the patron onboard became an expressive medium. The painting-and-calligraphy boat also privileged a sense of fortuity. Chance encounters and spontaneous...

... connections to the wider world. Hence, taking a thematic approach, the ACM's new galleries question how museums generally display objects along national lines or regional boundaries. This essay also brings attention to the multiple mediums and functions of Christian art from both the geographical locations...

... on the fundamental irrelevance of all media save the mind itself. Such a notion points to the need to develop a specifically Buddhist theory of images, media, and minds. Copyright © 2018 Asia Society 2018 Yuanjuedong repentance Zongmi medium Belting image anthropology The paratextual passage...

... In any event, it would be anachronistic to expect ancient Chinese subjects to discuss painting formats with the ideas of medium specificity and agency generated in modern contexts and historiographies. Gong Xian's contemporary-painting treatises and catalogs conformed to the existing routine...

... of Americans asso- The medium of the woodblock print is defined by ciated with the US military at this time, a small prewar the carving of a panel of wood to serve as the matrix coterie of modernist woodblock printmakers who had that is inked and then impressed onto a sheet of paper often pictured urban...

.... Accustomed to works that conformed to prevailing Beginning in the late 1940s, Lee participated in expectations surrounding a particular medium, Korean the design and fabrication of commemorative statues, critics in the 1960s and 1970s rarely mentioned Lee’s many of which were directly commissioned...

..., and reaffirmation. The animation video was presented at the exhibition “Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy” at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from 5 October 2012 through 13 January 2013. 1 The museum's online introduction to the exhibition describes animation as “a medium that is new...

... to life. While utilizing the technology and medium so revered and elemental to colonial systems of knowledge, the mirror photographs make a pointed commentary on attempts to assert static definitions of race and culture. The medium of photography, touted by the contemporary colonial power apparatus...

... than subject choices. In their inscriptions, Jin Cheng and Chen Shizeng demonstrated that medium, rather than content, was the message in the campaign to reinvigorate Chinese art and understood that the content of the inscription mattered less than the manner in which it was written. Not all...

... pictures. The current obscurity of the medium had taken root in China, speculating that the reverse glass paintings, together with their general omis- techniques might have been introduced there by Jesuit sion from the standard histories of art, owes much to missionaries.6 Modern accounts are no less...

... and refers to each piece by the number Chopel gave it. The identification information for each image is limited, however, and does not provide medium or dimensions. In some cases, as previously mentioned, Chopel renders the sketches in pencil or ink. Information about media and materials (ink, pencil, paint...

... of later times.3 distant history of this medium; the scholarly engage- Jerome Silbergeld ment, unusual in our field, with ‘‘second-class paintings’’ Princeton, February 2012 (the author’s own term for those...

..., the primary binding medium used for paint was lacquer, due to its durability and adhesion. 19 Lacquer has been scientifically identified on several Shang and Western Zhou bronzes and is a common binding medium for black and red paints, which were the two colors most commonly applied to bronzes in those...

...- ˙ meaningfully adapted it. The Scindia chatrı¯s present the polis in the former Rajput state of Bikaner in present- dynasty as politically legitimate through a recognizably day Rajasthan. These examples are typical of the Rajput royal medium, but one that the Scindia patrons trans- cenotaphs, although...

... of collage now extend well beyond the medium of painting and far outside the sphere of the West. So great is its consequence that one historian characterized it more as “an alternative to the modern tradition” than a part of it. 3 Either way, as Gregory Ulmer notes, collage outlived modernity itself...

.... Such a strategic de- and recontextualization of viewing practices belied a concern with the aesthetic specificity of medium and its ideological underpinnings. In his report on the exhibition, the painter Yokoyama Taikan 横山大観—the leading artist in the delegation—explained why neotraditional painting was the medium...

... and poetry. Thus his bluffs and towering pine trees.All around, precipitous peaks handscroll reflected a general dissolving of boundaries emerge and disappear in the mist, visually echoing the between various expressive mediums, as was characteris- emerging and disappearing of the twisting path. Further...

... expressive visual record of his travels but also because was also a traveler deploy his or her medium in the these images are further illuminated by a Japanese- pursuit of knowledge about strangers encountered in language autobiographical account of this journey that foreign places? And, after settling...

... in other mediums. The relationship between the Kerala sculptural idiom and historical developments in the per- Fig. 24. Urnit-Mahes'vara. loth-18th c. Kerala. Bronze; h. 19.1 cm. forming arts may also yield pertinent insights toward Collection...

... of the stone. At the same time, despite all of the planarity that the imagery's carving style implies, it clearly remains a work of stone carving or sculpture. The resulting ambiguity of the medium—that is, the imagery's intermediality—mirrored the pivotal location of Juyong Gate within the Yuan empire's...