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Published: 01 October 2018
Attributed to Ramji working in the workshop of Sahib Ram, A Woman of the Court Dressed as Radha , India (Jaipur, Rajasthan), Edo period (1615–1868), late eighteenth century. Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper; image 50.3 × 34.4 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017.447. Gift of Evelyn
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in How Much Agency Does Architecture Have?: How Bangladeshis Reclaimed the National Assembly in Dhaka
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 8. Louis Kahn Architecture office, working on the model of the Assembly complex. Photograph: Louis I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967.
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in Japan's Venice: The Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the “Pseudo-Objectivity” of the International
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 October 2017
Figure 8. Spread featuring works by Miki Tomio, catalog for the Japanese pavilion, Thirty-Fourth Venice Biennale, 1968.
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in Changing Notions of “Feminine Spaces” in Chosŏn-Dynasty Korea: The Forged Image of Sin Saimdang (1504–1551)
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 5. Song Siyŏl, “Colophon for Saimdang's Painting of Orchids,” in his collected works Songja taejŏn , ch. 146, 6b–7a. Photograph: courtesy of the Kyujanggak Institute of Korean Studies.
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 October 2022
...J. P. Park Abstract In 1634 Zhang Taijie (b. 1588) published a woodblock edition of Baohuilu (A Record of Treasured Paintings), an extensive catalog of a massive painting collection he claimed to have built. This work would seem to be a useful resource for historians of Chinese art since...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 243–268.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Sarah Richardson Abstract How can visual texts, closed books, and painted images work together in Buddhist temples to reinforce one another and act upon viewers? The fourteenth-century murals at the Tibetan temple of Shalu integrate pictures with long passages of Tibetan texts and select...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 1–53.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Allison R. Miller Abstract Scholars of Greek and Roman art have long recognized that many sculptures that today appear unpainted were originally covered in bright, polychrome paint. In contrast, the hallowed works of China's classical antiquity, the bronzes, are generally believed to have been...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 April 2022
... painting continues to enjoy recognition today as a work of artistic significance. The sociopolitical forces behind its creation, however, remain little understood. Closer scrutiny of the image and its contextual milieu elucidate the impact of nationalism on the life and work of this important artist...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 155–180.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of protection and prosperity. Attention to those expressions of Śaivism enable us to contextualize one of Daśapura's most famous, yet enigmatic, works of art: an ithyphallic male figure depicted with a double phallus (ca. sixth c. ce ). To date, the sculpture has remained impossible to place within the greater...
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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 61–89.
Published: 01 April 2011
...-stances satisfactorily explain some of this incomplete work. This article, however, addresses the significant number of unfinished works that seem unexplained by specific historical circumstances, and proposes that the concept of “finish” was flexible. The patron's prime aim was to create a monument...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (2): 131–170.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and their consideration in conjunction with textual materials, the author proposes a revisionist reconstruction of the early work in the Guyang Cave. Figure 23. Niche 66 with Fasheng dedicatory inscription dated 503, Guyang Cave south wall. Image courtesy of Longmen Research Institute. Figure 23. Niche 66...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 55–72.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of relational aesthetics, in the sense that the works of art function as a platform through which the individuals are engaged collectively with particular experiences and social circumstances so as to create a communal unity. This conceptualization of relational aesthetics becomes theoretically impoverished...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (2): 155–179.
Published: 01 October 2019
... 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...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 173–197.
Published: 01 October 2020
... appearance during the reconstructive work they undertook at the start of the twentieth century. 21. Gottschalk, Religion, Science, and Empire , 278–80 . 22. Bloch, “Temple of Mundesvari” ; Bloch, “Temple of Muṇḍeśvarī” ; Bloch, “Notes on Places Visited.” 23. The mistake made about...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 225–244.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., Medicalizing the State” and based on a perceptive art-historical reading of a set of medical paintings and its copies—had yet to be reviewed by an academically-trained art historian. This review underscores the fine art-historical insights deserving the attention of art historians working in parallel contexts...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., the Brooklyn kalamkari represents a uniquely cosmopolitan worldview from early-seventeenth-century South India. In this essay I discuss the makings of this particular worldview in the context of early modern processes of globalization and state-formation. By engaging with the work of Indologists Johan Huizinga...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (1): 85–117.
Published: 01 April 2020
... tu (One Hundred Horses). The third section analyzes how the paratextual elements of Qingming shanghe , especially Qianlong's poem and inscription, inform us of the emperor's views about the production mechanism of court painting and the political meaning of this work. The last section, based...
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 119–149.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that indexes the artist's self, this work deploys diverse pictorial and literary tropes to construct multiple personae, enabling the viewer (including the artist) to shift among them. The scroll effects the viewer's movement from one subject position to another, undermining the binary of spectator...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
... by several artists active in the Jiangnan region to consider how their works demonstrated traces of dissent or used loyalist imagery to deepen social ties. It reveals how these garden subjects were made powerfully subversive after centuries of dormant conventionality, seen merely as auspicious symbols until...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 143–187.
Published: 01 October 2017
... with contemporaneous recognition of the potential for consecrated works of art to provide direct contact with the deity depicted. By eliminating framing and boundaries between scenes, minimizing inscriptions, employing the gaze to foster internal and external coherence, and using detailing, highlighting...
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