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<p>List of Illustrations viii</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xiv</p> <p>Acknowledgments xx</p> <p><b>Part I Introduction </b><b>1</b></p> <p>1 Revisiting “Asian Art” 3<br /> <i>Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton</i></p> <p><b>Part II Objects in Use </b><b>21</b></p> <p>2 The Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History 23<br /> <i>Kevin Gray Carr</i></p> <p>3 Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand 48<br /> <i>Leedom Lefferts</i></p> <p>4 Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead in Northern Dynasties China 70<br /> <i>Bonnie Cheng</i></p> <p>5 The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World 97<br /> <i>Jan Mrázek</i></p> <p><b>Part III Space </b><b>121</b></p> <p>6 Building Beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India 123<br /> <i>Tamara I. Sears</i></p> <p>7 Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the Twentieth Century 153<br /> <i>Kim Youngna</i></p> <p>8 Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon 178<br /> <i>Elizabeth Howard Moore</i></p> <p>9 The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens 201<br /> <i>James L. Wescoat Jr.</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Artists </b><b>231</b></p> <p>10 Old Methods in a New Era: What Can Connoisseurship Tell Us about Rukn-ud-din? 233<br /> <i>Molly Emma Aitken and Shanane Davis, with technical analysisby Yana van Dyke</i></p> <p>11 Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America 264<br /> <i>Margo Machida</i></p> <p>12 The Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) and the Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 290<br /> <i>Jennifer Purtle</i></p> <p>13 Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins 318<br /> <i>Saloni Mathur</i></p> <p><b>Part V Challenging the Canon </b><b>339</b></p> <p>14 Re-evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea 341<br /> <i>Kumja Paik Kim</i></p> <p>15 Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in “Arab” Sind 365<br /> <i>Finbarr Barry Flood</i></p> <p>16 In the Absence of the Buddha: “Aniconism” and the Contentions of Buddhist Art History 398<br /> <i>Ashley Thompson</i></p> <p>17 On Maurya Art 421<br /> <i>Frederick Asher</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Shifting Meanings </b><b>445</b></p> <p>18 Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) 447<br /> <i>Morgan Pitelka</i></p> <p>19 Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon 471<br /> <i>Padma Kaimal</i></p> <p>20 Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth-Century East Java 486<br /> <i>Kaja M. McGowan</i></p> <p>21 Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as Skillful Means of Buddhism 513<br /> <i>Ikumi Kaminishi</i></p> <p>22 In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century China 537<br /> <i>Cheng-hua Wang</i></p> <p><b>Part VII Elusive, Mobile Objects </b><b>561</b></p> <p>23 Chinese Painting: Image-Text-Object 563<br /> <i>De-nin Deanna Lee</i></p> <p>24 Locating Tomyoji and Its “Six” Kannon Sculptures in Japan 580<br /> <i>Sherry Fowler</i></p> <p>25 The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern South Asia 604<br /> <i>Susan S. Bean</i></p> <p>26 Malraux’s Buddha Heads 629<br /> <i>Gregory P. A. Levine</i></p> <p>Index 655</p>

<b>Rebecca M. Brown</b> is visiting Associate Professor in the History of Art and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her publications include <i>Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India</i> (2010), and <i>Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980</i> (2009)<br /><br /> <p><b>Deborah S. Hutton</b> is Associate Professor of Art History at The College of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of <i>Art of the Court of Bijapur</i> (2006), which received the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities.</p> <p>Together, Rebecca Brown and Deborah Hutton have edited <i>Asian Art: An Anthology</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).</p>

<i>A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture</i> presents a collection of 26 original essays that explore and critically examine various aspects of the field of Asian art and architectural history. Featuring contributions from both leading scholars and emerging voices, the essays offer the opportunity to engage with the current state of scholarship in Asian art and to discover its rich diversity. In topics that range from ancient tombs and imperial commissions to coinage and cultural interaction, and from gardens and monastic spaces to performances and pilgrimages, this wide-ranging and insightful collection of essays illuminates the wide geographic and temporal range of Asian visual culture.<br /><br /> <p>Authors explore the art of Korea, Japan, China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and their diasporas, engaging issues related to colonial legacies and global interactions. Written by experts in art history, archaeology, geography, history, and anthropology, the essays are organized around six critical themes that reflect the current state of Asian art scholarship: Objects in Use, Space, Artists, Challenging the Canon, Shifting Meanings, and Elusive, Mobile Objects. With its multilayered presentation and wealth of thought-provoking new insights, <i>A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture</i> is an important addition to current scholarship that will reshape the way we consider Asian art.</p>

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