{"title":"Michael Sullivan (1916–2013)","authors":"J. Silbergeld","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Jageshwar Valley, Where Death Is Conquered","authors":"Nachiket Chanchani","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0000","url":null,"abstract":"The Jageshwar valley, situated thirty-five kilometers northeast of the district town of Almora in Uttarakhand state in northern India, has one hundred fifty lithic edifices and nearly as many steles dating from the seventh to the twenty-first century (Fig. 1). This conglomeration makes this valley the locus of the largest number of Hindu monuments and sculptures in the wide swath of Himalayan terrain extending from the Kangra valley in the west to the Kathmandu valley in the east. How, when, and why did the Jageshwar valley develop into a great tı̄rtha (sacred center)? Even provisional answers to this question are neither straightforward nor easy to obtain. For unlike places of historical and cultural significance in Kangra and Kathmandu, the Jageshwar valley has received little scholarly attention. Accurate floor plans of only five","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Simultaneous Validity of Co-Existing Cultures”: J. Swaminathan, the Bharat Bhavan, and Contemporaneity","authors":"Katherine F. Hacker","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66578293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Figuring Salvation: The Hōryūji Clay Sūtra Tableaux","authors":"Akiko Walley","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Hōryūji 法隆寺 is a Buddhist temple complex located to the southwest of the city of Nara. It was originally built in the early seventh century as Ikarugadera by a royal prince named Umayato no Toyotomimi 厩戸 豊聡耳 (574–ca. 622). Ikarugadera burned down in 670, but the temple was subsequently rebuilt at the current location and was functioning by the first half of the eighth century as Hōryūji. The oldest sanctuary of Hōryūji is known as the West Precinct 西院伽藍 (Saiin Garan, Fig. 1). It contains a Golden Hall 金堂 (Kondō) and a five-story pagoda 五重塔 (Gojūnotō, Fig. 2) located side by side, surrounded by a corridor 回廊 (Kairō) that presently connects to the Lecture Hall (講堂, Kōdō) to the north and the Central Gateway 中門 (Chūmon) to the south. On each side of the first story of the pagoda, there is a sūtra tableau of polychrome unbaked clay in a semicircular alcove. Located between two of the four posts that surround a central ‘‘heart pillar’’ 心柱 (shinbashira), it faces outward toward the corridor (Figs. 3, 4). The Hōryūji sūtra tableaux are panoramic three-dimensional landscapes, a type of temple ornamentation that first","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John M. Rosenfield (1924–2013)","authors":"Y. Shimizu","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66578170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaekgeori: Multi-Dimensional Messages in Late Joseon Korea","authors":"Sunglim Kim","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0011","url":null,"abstract":"pattern covering over four-fifths of the screen’s surface (Fig. 9). The pattern is not merely a frame for the tabletop scene in the center but is an important design element in its own right. Conventionally this spacious ‘‘background’’ might have been left as negative space, but the leopard spots turn it into positive space, nearly eliminating the concept of negative space altogether. The intermingling of reality and abstraction takes many forms in chaekgeori painting. For example, tabletop chaekgeori artists freely adopted diverse perspecFig. 14. Preliminary Drawing of Scholar’s Accoutrements (Chaekgeori), Korea, 19th century. Eight-panel folding booklet, ink on paper, 69.2 350.5 cm. The Robert and Sandra Mattielli Collection, Oregon, USA. SUNGLIM KIM Chaekgeori 23","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking to the West: Stone Molds and Foreign Visual Models in Satavahana Material Culture (First–Second Century ce )","authors":"P. Brancaccio","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art and Technology in a Chinese Gold Cicada Plaque","authors":"Sarah Laursen, D. Strahan","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In 2002, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acquired an exquisite gold plaque with an image of a cicada at its center (MMA 2002.255) (Fig. 1). The plaque is said to be from China and is stylistically similar to several plaques excavated throughout the country, but little or nothing is known of its provenance. Works like this one often bridge gaps in the archaeological record but can be frustratingly difficult to understand without knowledge of their origins. How then should we treat these objects? Should we disregard them? Omit them from our scholarship? In this paper, we, the authors—an art historian and an objects conservator— will describe how we have approached this particular object. In the case of this Chinese cicada plaque—one of more than thirty in collections across the globe (Table 1)—we are fortunate to have enough supporting archaeological and documentary evidence to allow us to posit an approximate date and possibly even a geographical source. Although we will never know the precise findspot of the plaque or to whom it belonged, modern conservation science has enabled us to learn more than ever before. Using analytical laboratory techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, we can discover its physical composition and provide an expanded view of its artistic construction. These findings, in turn, enrich and inform our understanding of the larger body of cicada plaques in collections in China, Japan, Europe, and the United States. First, we will provide an overview of the cicada plaques whose findspots are known. Next, we will investigate the Metropolitan plaque’s materials and methods of manufacture. Finally, we will explore the form and iconography of the cicada in order to better understand its function in the context of medieval Chinese society and funerary customs. We hope this first in-depth study of the cicada plaques will encourage the reexamination and scientific analysis of plaques at other institutions in the future.","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distinguishing “Set” from “Series” in Tibetan Painting","authors":"J. Repo","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Earthly Paradise: Appropriation and Politics in Li Keran’s Representation of Beihai Park","authors":"Yan Geng","doi":"10.1353/AAA.2014.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AAA.2014.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41400,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/AAA.2014.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66577655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}