In the shadow of the golden age
Subtitle: art and identity in Asia from Gandhara to the modern age
By: Julia A.B. Hegewald
Series: Studies in Asian art and culture, SAAC -- v. 1
Publisher: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9783868931495
Subjects: Indic Art; History; Asian Art; Buddhist art; Identity (Psychology) in art; Nationalism; Civilization; Art; Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The golden age, history and memory in modernity / Partha Mitter; title: Introduction: out of the shadow of the golden age / Julia A. B. Hegewald; title: Buddhist art through a modern lens: a case of a mistaken scholarly trajectory / Susan L. Huntington; title: The legacy of Gandhāra in central Asian painting / Ciro Lo Muzio; title: The 'movable' golden ages: 'western' Asiatic art beyond its homeland and transitioning to central and north-east Asia / John C. Huntington; title: 'Golden age' and 'decline' in art-historical writing on Chinese Buddhist sculpture: describing a shifting discourse / Petra Hildegard Rösch; title: The alteration and destruction of Buddhist images at Angkor during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / William A. Southworth; title: Art and narrative in changing conditions: southern Buddhist temple art as an accommodation of the new and diverse / Sarah Shaw; title: Performing endangerment: damage, loss and maintenance in the historiography of Newar religious artefacts / Christoph Emmrich; title: Political and social dimensions as reflected in medieval Indian sculpture: comparison, antagonism, identity / Tiziana Lorenzetti; title: Golden age or Kali-Yuga?: the changing fortunes of Jaina art and identity in Karnataka / Julia A. B. Hegewald; title: Trans-cultural temples: identity and practice in Goa / Mallica Kumbera Landrus; title: Indian 'company school' art from 1780 to 1820: collecting versus documenting / Jennifer Howes; title: The 'golden age' and the secession: approaches to alterity in early twentieth-century world art / Eva-Maria Troelenberg; title: Old texts, new images: illustrating the Śvetāmbara Jaina Āgamas today / Nalini Balbir; title: Entangled temporality: contemporary Indian artists and their retakes on the 'golden' age / Parul Dave Mukherji; title: Shanghai, Paris, Little Lhasa: on global perspectives of contemporary Tibetan art or the multiplicity of artistic golden ages / Regina Höfer.