Asian Art

Dorinda Neave is a senior lecturer in Art History at Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada. Dorinda received a B.A. from Manchester University U.K. and a post-graduate certificate in Education from Keele University, U.K. before completing an M.A at the University of Victoria, Canada. She currently teaches courses in visual culture and Asian art at Capilano University. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese performance art and women in Japanese art as artists, patrons and subjects. Neave’s articles have been published in a variety of journals such as Art Journal and Woman’s Art Journal. She has traveled widely throughout Japan and in 2009 was a summer visiting scholar at Nichibunken (International Research Centre for Japanese Studies) in Kyoto.Lara C. W. Blanchard is Luce Associate Professor of East Asian Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, where she teaches courses in art history, Asian studies, and women’s studies. She received a B.A. from the College of William & Mary and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her research interests focus on Chinese pictorial arts, especially of the Song through Ming dynasties (960-1644) and the contemporary era, and include women as artists and patrons, the construction of gender, text-image relationships, and theories of representation. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Ars Orientalis and Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. She has traveled throughout mainland China and studied Chinese art, language, and calligraphy in Taipei.Marika Sardar is Associate Curator of Southern Asian and Islamic Art at The San Diego Museum of Art. Marika studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU where she completed a doctoral dissertation on the architecture of Golconda, a fortified city in the Deccan, India. She has also worked in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and her research has embraced architecture, archaeology, painting, textiles, and trade. Publications include essays in several books about the Deccan and in the catalogue The Interwoven Globe: Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 (2013). She was co-editor of Sultans of the South: Arts of India’s Deccan Courts, 1323-1687 (2011).

• In this Section: Brief Table of ContentsDetailed Table of ContentsI) Brief Table of Contents PART ONE: SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Chapter 1. The Rise of Cities and Birth of the Great Religions: Early Indian ArtChapter 2. Religious Art in the Age of Royal Patronage: The Medieval PeriodChapter 3. India Opens to the World: The Early Modern PeriodChapter 4. India and the International Scene: The Modern and Contemporary PeriodsChapter 5. At the Crossroads: The Arts of Southeast AsiaPART TWO: CHINA Chapter 6. Ritual and Elite Arts: The Neolithic Period to the First EmpiresChapter 7. Looking Outward: The Six Dynasties and Sui and Tang DynastiesChapter 8. Art, Conquest, and Identity: The Five Dynasties Period and Song and Yuan DynastiesChapter 9. The City and the Market in Chinese Art: The Ming and Qing DynastiesChapter 10. The Push for Modernization: 1912 to the PresentPART THREE: KOREA AND JAPAN Chapter 11. An Unknown Land, A People Divided: Korean Art from Prehistory to PresentChapter 12. The Way of the Gods and the Path of the Buddha: Japanese Art from Prehistory to the Asuka PeriodChapter 13. External Influences and Internal Explorations: The Nara and Heian PeriodsChapter 14. Strife and Serenity: Kamakura, Muromachi, and Momoyama PeriodsChapter 15. From Isolation to Internationalism: Edo Period to the Present II) Detailed Table of Contents PART ONE: SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Chapter 1. The Rise of Cities and Birth of the Great Religions: Early Indian Art The Harappan CivilizationThe Vedic Period And The Origins Of HinduismBuddhism And Buddhist ArtJainism And The Depiction Of The DivineOther Traditions Of SculptureChapter 2. Religious Art in the Age of Royal Patronage: The Medieval Period The Ritual And Artistic Developments Of HinduismEarly Hindu TemplesThe Convergence Of Jain, Buddhist, And Hindu TraditionsBuddhism In Sri LankaLater Developments In Temple ArchitectureMedieval Paintings And ManuscriptsSouth Asian Textiles And The International Trade MarketChapter 3. India Opens to the World: The Early Modern Period The Arrival Of Persian Court Culture And The Spread Of IslamThe Delhi Sultanates And Their ContemporariesThe Deccan Sultanates, Vijayanagara, And Southern IndiaThe Mughal EmpireEuropeans And European Art In IndiaArt And Architecture Of The Rajput CourtsPainting From The Pahari CourtsVisual Traditions Of The Sikh ReligionChapter 4. India and the International Scene: The Modern and Contemporary Periods A Mixture Of Traditions: European And Indian Art In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth CenturiesThe Architecture Of EmpireVisions Of The Modern In The Early Twentieth CenturyIndependent South AsiaContemporary Art: Globalization, Diaspora, HeritageChapter 5. At the Crossroads: The Arts of Southeast Asia PrehistoryTradeIndigenous ArtThe Arrival Of Indic ReligionsThe Great FloweringRise Of IslamAyutthayaBurmaModern TimesPART TWO: CHINA Chapter 6. Ritual and Elite Arts: The Neolithic Period to the First Empires Neolithic ArtifactsAncestor WorshipZhou Dynasty Ritual And Political ArtsThe Tomb Of The First Emperor Of The Qin DynastyHan Dynasty Funerary Arts, Daoism, And ConfucianismChapter 7. Looking Outward: The Six Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties Six Dynasties Pictorial ArtsSix Dynasties Buddhist Cave SitesSix Dynasties And Tang CalligraphySui And Tang Imperial City Planning And TombsSui And Tang Dynasty Handscroll PaintingsTang Buddhist Art And ArchitectureDecorative Arts For The Tang EliteChapter 8. Art, Conquest, and Identity: The Five Dynasties Period and Song and Yuan Dynasties Southern Tang Court PaintingSouthern Tang And Northern Song Landscape PaintersNorthern Song Courtly ArtsSong Literati Painting And CalligraphySouthern Song Court Painting, Calligraphy, And PatronageSouthern Song And Yuan Religious Art And ArchitectureYuan Court PaintingYuan Literati PaintingChapter 9. The City and the Market in Chinese Art: The Ming and Qing DynastiesMing And Qing Politics And ArchitectureMing And Qing CeramicsMing Professional PaintersMing Literati PaintersMing And Qing Female PaintersQing Court PaintersQing Individualist And Eccentric PaintersChapter 10. The Push for Modernization: 1912 to the Present Republican-Era Pictorial Arts, 1912–1949Communist-Era Political Arts, 1949–1976Post-Cultural Revolution Painting, 1976 To The PresentPainters Working Outside Mainland ChinaInstallations, Performances, And New Media, 1980s To The PresentPART THREE : KOREA AND JAPAN Chapter 11. An Unknown Land, A People Divided: Korean Art from Prehistory to Present Neolithic And Bronze AgeThree Kingdoms PeriodBuddhism And KoreaQueen SeondeokUnified Silla KingdomGoryeo DynastyJoseon DynastyColonization And WarArt In North KoreaArt In South KoreaChapter 12. The Way of the Gods and the Path of the Buddha: Japanese Art from Prehistory to the Asuka Period Shamanism And The Development Of ShintoJomon PeriodYayoi PeriodKofun PeriodThe Sun Goddess Amaterasu And The Shinto Shrine At IseEarly Buddhist ArtChapter 13. External Influences and Internal Explorations: The Nara and Heian Periods Nara PeriodHeian PeriodChapter 14. Strife and Serenity: Kamakura, Muromachi, and Momoyama Periods Kamakura PeriodMuromachi (Ashikaga) PeriodMomoyama PeriodChapter 15. From Isolation to Internationalism: Edo Period to the Present Closed Doors: Edo PeriodMeiji PeriodShowa PeriodFrom 1989 To The Present