"This volume's research essays span two millennia and nearly the full territorial extent of East and Inner Asia. Contributed by Patricia Berger's advisees, they highlight her vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relati…
"This volume's research essays span two millennia and nearly the full territorial extent of East and Inner Asia. Contributed by Patricia Berger's advisees, they highlight her vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relati…
Saloni Mathur investigates the radical work of two seminal figures--New Dehli-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur, and her husband, contemporary multimedia artist, Vivan Sundaram--to show how their approach to artistic practice and theory may inform subsequent generations and s…
A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience. The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide …
During the 1960s, a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s.
This work uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, the book contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricis…
"In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handboo…
This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently frame the art history of East Asia. This pioneering study proposes an important new…
