Asian Art: An Anthology

Series Editor’s Preface.

Part I. Introduction.

Part II. South and Southeast Asia.

Selected Periods and Dates.

1. “Ashokan Edicts,” from Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1: Ainslie T. Embree, editor.

2. Selections from Stories of the Buddha and The Jataka: Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids and W.H.D. Rouse, translators.

3. “The Country of Khotan and the Image Procession” and “The Image Procession,” from A Record of the Buddhist Countries: Fa-Hsien [Faxian].

4. "Varaha, the Boar," "Brahma, Vishnu and the Linga of Siva; Mt. Govardhana," "The Origin of the Goddess from the Gods," and "The Death of Mahisha, the Buffalo Demon" from Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas: Cornelia Dimmitt and J.A.B. van Buitenen, editors and translators.

5. Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mamallapuram.

Padma Kaimal.

6. Excerpts from Borobudur: Louis Frederic.

7. "Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple" from Love in Asian Art and Culture: Vidya Dehejia.

8. Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship.

Eleanor Mannikka.

9. "Akbar riding the elephant Havai " and "Akbar supervising the construction of Fatehpur Sikri" from The Akbar Nama of Abul Fazl: Henry Beveridge, translator.

10. Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India.

Wheeler M. Thackston, translator and editor.

11. Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture: Michael Brand.

12. "Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th-19th Centuries" from The Idea of Rajasthan: Vishakha Desai.

13. "Indian Images Collected" from Lives of Indian Images: Richard Davis.

14. "Image as Presence," from From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum: Janet Gyatso.

15. Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon: Sandra Cate.

16. "The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma" from Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Partha Mitter.

17. "The “East-West” Opposition in Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier" from Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India: Vikramaditya Prakash.

18. "Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms" from Imaging the City: Larry R. Ford.

Part III. East Asia.

Selected Periods and Dates.

19. "The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality" from Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture: Wu Hung.

20. Shang and Zhou Bronze inscriptions, translated by Wu Hung and Deborah Sommer.

21. "A Magic Army for the Emperor" from Ten Thousand Things: Lothar Ledderose.

22. “The Tigress,” from Once the Buddha Was A Monkey: Arya Sura's Jatakamala.

Arya Shura.

23. “The Six Laws of Xie He,” from Some T’ang and Pre-T’ang Texts on Chinese Painting: William Reynolds Beal Acker, translator and editor.

24. "The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Hsi-chih ([Wang Xizhi], 303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century" from Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy: Eugene Y. Wang.

25. “Ise Jingu,” from Architecture and Authority in Japan: William H. Coaldrake.

26. Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image, from Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1.

27. “Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape,” from Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th-14th Century: Wen C. Fong.

28. Guo Xi's writings on landscape painting.

Susan Bush and Hsio-Yen, Shih, translators and editors.

29. Jocho’s statue of Amida at the Byodo-in and cultural legitimization in late Heian Japan: Samuel C. Morse.

30. “The Oak Tree,” from The Tale of Genji: Murasaki Shikibu.

31. The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century: John M. Rosenfield.

32. "Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period" from The Politics of Reclusion: Kendall H. Brown.

33. “Practices of Vision,” from Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China.

Craig Clunas.

34. Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning: Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

35. Letters from European travelers about the Forbidden City: “A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte” and “An English ambassador in Beijing: Aeneas Anderson”.

36. “The Conventional Success of Ch’en Shu,” from Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting: Marsha Weidner.

37. “Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Chosen Dynasty,” from Arts of Korea: Yi Song-mi.

38. The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture: Timon Screech.

39. “The Kizaemon Tea-bowl,” from The Unknown Craftsman: Soetsu Yanagi.

40. Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

Mao Tse-tung.

41. Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution from Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Robert Benewick.

42. "Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Indépendant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s" from Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky.

Alexandra Munroe.

43. Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay: Simon Leung.

44. "Believing is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze" from Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art: John Kuo Wei Tchen.

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