Fw: H-ASIA: Member pub.: _A Companian to Asian Art and Architecture_

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monika Lehner" <monika.lehner@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:00 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub.: _A Companian to Asian Art and Architecture_

> H-ASIA
> June 15, 2011
>
> Member pub: _A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture_, Rebecca M. Brown
> and Deborah S. Hutton, eds.
> ************************************************************************
> From: Rebecca Brown <rmbrown@gmail.com>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> We are pleased to announce the publication of _A Companion to Asian
> Art and Architecture_, a collection of 26 original essays from a group
> of scholars across disciplines and representing a wide range of
> emerging research in this field. The introductory chapter and table of
> contents are available for pdf download from Wiley's site.
>
> http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405185376,descCd-description.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/BCAA2011
>
> A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture
> Rebecca M. Brown (Editor), Deborah S. Hutton (Editor)
> ISBN: 978-1-4051-8537-0
> Hardcover
> 688 pages
> May 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
>
> 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.
>
> Table of Contents:
>
> List of Illustrations.
> Notes on Contributors.
> Acknowledgments.
>
> Part I Introduction.
>
> 1 Revisiting "Asian Art" (Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton).
>
> Part II Objects in Use.
>
> 2 The Material Facts of Ritual: Revisioning Medieval Viewing through
> Material Analysis, Ethnographic Analogy, and Architectural History
> (Kevin Gray Carr).
>
> 3 Textiles and Social Action in Theravada Buddhist Thailand (Leedom
> Lefferts).
>
> 4 Functional and Nonfunctional Realism: Imagined Spaces for the Dead
> in Northern Dynasties China (Bonnie Cheng).
>
> 5 The Visible and the Invisible in a Southeast Asian World (Jan Mrázek).
>
> Part III Space.
>
> 6 Building Beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in
> Medieval Central India (Tamara I. Sears).
>
> 7 Urban Space and Visual Culture: The Transformation of Seoul in the
> Twentieth Century (Kim Youngna).
>
> 8 Unexpected Spaces at the Shwedagon (Elizabeth Howard Moore).
>
> 9 The Changing Cultural Space of Mughal Gardens (James L. Wescoat Jr.).
>
> Part IV Artists.
>
> 10 Old Methods in a New Era: What Can Connoisseurship Tell Us about
> Rukn-ud-Din? (Molly Emma Aitken and Shanane Davis, with technical
> analysis by Yana van Dyke).
>
> 11 Convergent Conversations: Contemporary Art in Asian America (Margo
> Machida).
>
> 12 The Icon of the Woman Artist: Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) and the
> Power of Painting at the Ming Court c. 1500 (Jennifer Purtle).
>
> 13 Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins (Saloni Mathur).
>
> Part V Challenging the Canon.
>
> 14 Re-evaluating Court and Folk Painting of Korea (Kumja Paik Kim).
>
> 15 Conflict and Cosmopolitanism in "Arab" Sind (Finbarr Barry Flood).
>
> 16 In the Absence of the Buddha: "Aniconism" and the Contentions of
> Buddhist Art History (Ashley Thompson).
>
> 17 On Maurya Art (Frederick Asher).
>
> Part VI Shifting Meanings.
>
> 18 Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu
> (1543–1616) (Morgan Pitelka).
>
> 19 Shiva Nataraja: Multiple Meanings of an Icon (Padma Kaimal).
>
> 20 Sifting Mountains and Rivers through a Woven Lens: Repositioning
> Women and the Gaze in Fourteenth-Century East Java (Kaja M. McGowan).
>
> 21 Dead Beautiful: Visualizing the Decaying Corpse in Nine Stages as
> Skillful Means of Buddhism (Ikumi Kaminishi).
>
> 22 In the Name of the Nation: Song Painting and Artistic Discourse in
> Early Twentieth-Century China (Cheng-hua Wang).
>
> Part VII Elusive, Mobile Objects.
>
> 23 Chinese Painting: Image-Text-Object (De-nin Deanna Lee).
>
> 24 Locating Tomyoji and Its "Six" Kannon Sculptures in Japan (Sherry
> Fowler).
>
> 25 The Unfired Clay Sculpture of Bengal in the Artscape of Modern
> South Asia (Susan S. Bean).
>
> 26 Malraux's Buddha Heads (Gregory P. A. Levine).
>
> Index.
>
> Rebecca M. Brown is visiting Associate Professor in the History of Art
> and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her
> publications include Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India
> (2010), and Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 (2009)
>
> Deborah S. Hutton is Associate Professor of Art History at The College
> of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of Art of the Court of Bijapur
> (2006), which received the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward
> Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities.
>
> Together, Rebecca Brown and Deborah Hutton have also edited Asian Art:
> An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).
>
> ---
> Rebecca Brown
> <rmbrown@gmail.com>
>
> ************************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
> For holidays or short absences send post to:
> <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message:
> SET H-ASIA NOMAIL
> Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
> H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/