History of Asian Art

Deborah Hutton is Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art Education at The College of New Jersey. Her research explores art made for the Muslim courts of South Asia between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book Art of the Court of Bijapur won the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities. She co-authored (with Deepali Dewan) Raja Deen Dayal: Artist-Photographer in 19th-century India and co-edited (with Rebecca Brown) Asian Art: An Anthology; Blackwell Companion to Asian Art; and Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500–Present. She also co-authored (with De-nin Lee) The History of Asian Art: A Global View.Dr. Hutton wrote chapters on the art of South and Southeast Asia from the earliest periods to the present, and on Islamic art in North Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia from the seventh century to the present. In collaboration with De-nin Lee, she co-authored the Introduction. Along with Jean Robertson, she is also the textbook’s co-lead author, and assisted with editing all of the chapters, co-authoring the Part Openers, and coordinating vocabulary throughout.De-nin D. Lee  is Professor of Art History in the department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. Her current research takes an ecocritical approach to images of Chinese landscape. She is author of The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll through Time and editor of Eco–Art History in East and Southeast Asia. She co-authored (with Deborah Hutton) The History of Asian Art: A Global View.Dr. Lee wrote chapters on East Asia—the areas of present-day China, Mongolia, Japan, and Korea—from prehistorical times to the modern period. In collaboration with Deborah Hutton, she co-authored the Introduction.

'Covering a vast array of visual and material art practices spanning prehistoric to present times, this volume is a timely addition to the growing field of Asian art' - Charlotte Horlyck, SOAS University of London