A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture

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A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture offers 26 original essays by leading scholars, providing a comprehensive examination of Asian art and architectural history. The collection breaks new ground by incorporating studies on often overlooked regions such as Korea and Southeast Asia, extending beyond the traditional India-China-Japan focus. It also investigates the impacts of global and colonial interactions and the roles of diasporic communities in the US and UK. Topics covered include imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.
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This volume is ideal for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Asian art and architecture seeking a broad and critical perspective on the field's current scholarship and diverse geographic coverage.

This companion presents new critical views on crucial aspects of the large and varied field of Asian art and architectural history. The essays collected here provide scholars and the public with an opportunity to engage with the field in all its diversity - from coinage to monastic spaces to imperial commissions and beyond.

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119019534

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 June 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

Edited by Deborah S. Hutton
Edited by Rebecca M. Brown
Series edited by Dana Arnold
Series edited by Dana Arnold

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 1157g

Pages: 688

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Blackwell Companions to Art History

About the Author

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 edited Asian Art: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).

A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture