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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 67–86.
Published: 01 April 2018
... walls, they rapidly acquired symbolic significance through their association with political power. This article examines the development of twin towers from the Warring States period to the Eastern Han dynasty, showing how their ability to define political or sacred space was adapted to a variety...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 243–268.
Published: 01 October 2021
... inscriptions that explain the powers of seeing paintings. The murals combine and mix media—books, paintings, cloth—into expressive wholes that ultimately argue that walls are in fact much more than walls. The paintings find ways to make the temple's book collections more accessible. Here we find a public art...
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Archives of Asian Art (2004) 54 (1): 63–93.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Mary Beth Coffman Heston Copyright © Asia Society 2004 Powerful Bodies: "Kerala Style" Bronzes and
Thinking about a Regional Style'
MARY BETH COFFMAN HESTON
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
Power is manifest when it is exercised in a particular
body in a particular context...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 171–190.
Published: 01 October 2021
...April D. Hughes Abstract The majority of the murals at Dunhuang that depict Maitreya are dominated by his three assemblies, thereby emphasizing the salvific power of the future Buddha after he has descended to earth. This article examines scenes from the Maitreya murals, highlighting details...
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in Japan's Venice: The Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the “Pseudo-Objectivity” of the International
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Published: 01 October 2017
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 215–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Sonya S. Lee Abstract Kucha was one of the major political powers and cultural centers along the ancient Silk Road, home to a great number of Buddhist cave temples that have survived from the time of their creation sometime between the third century and the eighth. Although they are not as well...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 21–53.
Published: 01 April 2019
... benefits and even directed prayers for salvation. In addition, this essay shows that the architectural and spatial settings in which Enma was placed influenced the understanding of his varied functions, and ultimately enabled his refiguration as a salvific deity who had the power to grant birth in a Buddha...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 155–180.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Elizabeth A. Cecil Abstract Ancient Daśapura was the site of an internally complex Śaiva religious community. The Aulikara rulers used Śaivism as a political idiom to celebrate military might and royal power. Their ministers, the Naigamas, promoted an irenic vision that praised Śiva as a source...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 25–59.
Published: 01 April 2017
... the complex, particular visual thinking of court artists; and third, by comparing the strategies of Chotu and Rahim with the visual rhetoric of Bengal School painters to expand on colonial conceptions of past and present, of Western and non-Western, and of the affective power of images. These three approaches...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 209–236.
Published: 01 October 2017
... the exact distance from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. ...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 April 2021
... not yet know if any new dimension was added to the corpus of rituals, and the Śiva-Śakti power equation after the Saiddhāntika Śaiva preceptors affiliated with Golagī great monastery of Durvāsas lineage entered Devīkoṭa at the end of the tenth century. This essay searches for answers in the visual...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 69–79.
Published: 01 April 2012
...¯ actors were a visual manifestation of the con- Danju¯ ro¯ I fostered a public perception that he was chan-
nection between the actors and the temple. Ema formed nelling the power of the god. The author of Yakusha
a crucial part of a network of publicity that promoted zensho (All About Actors...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2007
... draws attention to the brief struggle and early death of his successor, Gao
dominant human element in her grave. Cheng; the final phase: Gao Yang’s swift ascent to
The princess’ epitaph asserts that her funeral ad- power, usurpation of the Wei throne, and establishment
hered...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 April 2022
... colonial power apparatus as somehow able to record unknown others into comprehensible objects, is deliberately challenged by the insertion of the mirror, with its ever-fluid, non-fixable reflective surface. The contrast between the two surfaces offered Cixi the means by which to reflect critically...
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Archives of Asian Art (2023) 73 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., first discussion with the author, 5 June 2006 . 147. Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity , 257–58 . 148. Ul Haque, second interview with the author, 8 June 2006. 149. Kahn, What Will Be Has Always Been , 25 . 150. Ul Haque, second interview...
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Archives of Asian Art (2003) 53 (1): 54–70.
Published: 01 April 2003
... in Delhi were spent at a courtesan's home,
small and subtle enough to be individually unthreatening where she reputedly grew into an exceptionally beautiful
and therefore to escape notice of the dominant discourse, and talented woman.
and precisely this "invisibility" gives them their power...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 273–275.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... Following those complementary pathways enables viewers to understand the balanced exoteric and esoteric aspects of divine power through their own experience. Focusing on the architecture, sculpture, and inscriptions, as well as dramatic changes of emphasis caused by the effects of changing seasonal...
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Archives of Asian Art (2004) 54 (1): 23–33.
Published: 01 April 2004
... wielded
positively as a period in which a market economy devel- considerable power both on the battlefield and at court.6
oped, Confucian thought expanded through the influence In addition, many eminent civil officials were intimately
of Wang Yangming and his followers, and increased social...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 55–72.
Published: 01 April 2019
...), a monumental painting (9.8 feet high, 328 feet long) of the five hundred enlightened followers ( arhats ) of Buddha, in order to demonstrate the power of prayer at the moment of such a dire tragedy. 37 In 2015 the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston presented a group exhibition, “In the Wake: Japanese...
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 April 2011
... to power in the 18th
combined monumental scale, symbolic internal organi- century, they reinvented˙ themselves as royal and appro-
zation, and memorial rituals in their ancestral chatrı¯sto priated the established north Indian visual vocabulary
proclaim their recently established political authority...
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