Ebook: A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture

A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture presents a collection of 26 original essays from top scholars in the field that explore and critically examine various aspects of Asian art and architectural history.

• Brings together top international scholars of Asian art and architecture
• Represents the current state of the field while highlighting the wide range of scholarly approaches to Asian Art 
• Features work on Korea and Southeast Asia, two regions often overlooked in a field that is often defined as India-China-Japan
• Explores the influences on Asian art of global and colonial interactions and of the diasporic communities in the US and UK
• Showcases a wide range of topics including imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.

Content:
Chapter 1 Revisiting “Asian Art” (pages 1–20): Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton
Chapter 2 The Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History (pages 21–47): Kevin Gray Carr
Chapter 3 Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand (pages 48–69): Leedom Lefferts
Chapter 4 Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties China (pages 70–96): Bonnie Cheng
Chapter 5 The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World (pages 97–120): Jan Mrazek
Chapter 6 Building beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India (pages 121–152): Tamara I. Sears
Chapter 7 Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the Twentieth Century (pages 153–177): Kim Youngna
Chapter 8 Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon (pages 178–200): Elizabeth Howard Moore
Chapter 9 The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens (pages 201–229): James L. Wescoat
Chapter 10 Old Methods in a New Era: What can Connoisseurship Tell us about Rukn?Ud?Din? (pages 231–263): Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis and Yana van Dyke
Chapter 11 Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America (pages 264–289): Margo Machida
Chapter 12 The Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) and the Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 (pages 290–317): Jennifer Purtle
Chapter 13 Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins (pages 318–338): Saloni Mathur
Chapter 14 Re?Evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea (pages 339–364): Kumja Paik Kim
Chapter 15 Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in “Arab” Sind (pages 365–397): Finbarr Barry Flood
Chapter 16 In the Absence of the Buddha: “Aniconism” and the Contentions of Buddhist Art History (pages 398–420): Ashley Thompson
Chapter 17 On Maurya Art (pages 421–443): Frederick Asher
Chapter 18 Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) (pages 445–470): Morgan Pitelka
Chapter 19 Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon (pages 471–485): Padma Kaimal
Chapter 20 Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth?Century East Java (pages 486–512): Kaja M. McGowan
Chapter 21 Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of Buddhism (pages 513–536): Ikumi Kaminishi
Chapter 22 In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth?Century China (pages 537–560): Cheng?Hua Wang
Chapter 23 Chinese Painting: Image?Text?Object (pages 561–579): De?Nin Deanna Lee
Chapter 24 Locating Tomyoji and its “Six” Kannon Sculptures in Japan (pages 580–603): Sherry Fowler
Chapter 25 The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern South Asia (pages 604–628): Susan S. Bean
Chapter 26 Malraux's Buddha Heads (pages 629–654): Gregory P. A. Levine