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China in Medieval Indian Imagination: Production of China-Inspired Images in Eastern India and Nepal during the Tenth through the Twelfth Centuries (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: China in Medieval Indian Imagination: Production of China-Inspired Images in Eastern India and Nepal during the Tenth through the Twelfth Centuries
Abstract: Cross-cultural exchange between India and China during the medieval times is often understood through a Buddhist lens; by investigating the impact of Indian Buddhist sources to receiving Chinese communities. In these cultural transactions, instigated by traveling pilgrim-monks and enacted by imperial power players in China, India emerges as a remote, idealized, and perhaps “hollow” center. What seems to be missing in this unidirectional looking is the impact of these cultural communications in India. What were the Indian responses to Chinese Buddhists’ demands and their physical presence? How was China imagined and translated in medieval India? By examining a group of “China”-inspired Indian Buddhist images and iconographies in the larger geo-political context, this paper charts Indian responses to Chinese and Tibetan demands in their artistic outputs and highlights the complex, multidirectional process of “Other-ing” in medieval global cultural exchange.
Author: Jinah Kim
Date: 02/15/2014
Location: College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Primary URL:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2014/schedule/sessionsPrimary URL Description: This URL links to the roster of sessions, which provides detail about this presentaion made as part of the session on "Global Art History in the Middle Ages: China and Cros-Cultural Exchange, 500-1500.
Secondary URL:
http://http://conference.collegeart.org/2014/Secondary URL Description: This URL links to the College Art Association Annual Conference home page.
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (Book)Title: Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia
Author: Jinah Kim
Editor: N/A
Abstract: In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book “manuscript” should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners.
Year: 2013
Primary URL:
http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&afterPDS=true&institution=01GRI&docId=GETTY_ALMA21133979640001551 Primary URL Description: This URL provides access to the record for this book in the Getty Research Institute, library catalog.
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: Unicersity of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520273863
Translator: N/A
Copy sent to NEH?: No
Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces (Book)Title: Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces
Author: Kristina Kleutghen
Editor: N/A
Abstract: In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China's most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of "scenic illusion paintings" (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&afterPDS=true&institution=01GRI&docId=GETTY_ALMA21161146380001551Primary URL Description: This URL provides access to the record for this book in the Getty Research Institute, library catalog.
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780295994109
Translator: N/A
Copy sent to NEH?: No
Pockmarked Demons, Pot-bellied Goddesses: Images of Sickness and Healing and Trans-Sectarian Development of Medico-Cultic Practices in Pre-Modern South Asia (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Pockmarked Demons, Pot-bellied Goddesses: Images of Sickness and Healing and Trans-Sectarian Development of Medico-Cultic Practices in Pre-Modern South Asia
Abstract: Many gods and goddesses known in the rich pantheon of Indic religious traditions throughout history have their origins at local level practices that reflect worldly needs of devotees. Addressing one of the most pressing human concerns of life and death, a goddess or a god with ability to cure the sick enjoyed immense trans-regional popularity. Yet, a claim for a specialty against a specific disease is surprisingly rare. In this context, Parn?as´abari¯, a Buddhist goddess of healing with a claimed specialty against smallpox, and her association with Hindu smallpox goddess S´i¯tala¯, provide an interesting case to understand the changing landscape of healing and medicine in medieval South Asia not only because their appearance helps us discern the historical rise of smallpox epidemics in India but also because their iconographies points to the incorporation of the ritual practices of tantric and periphery traditions into much wider use. By closely examining the iconographies of these goddesses as represented in surviving images and ritual texts from the ninth through the twelfth centuries, Jinah Kim suggest that the pattern of iconographic appropriation and adaptation seen in the development of instrumental iconography of healing demonstrates how the interactions between local medico-cultic practices and normative religious institutions informed trans-local understanding of an epidemic disease, which in turn must have contributed to the development of medical discourse and spread of healing strategies in pre-modern South Asia.
Author: Jinah Kim
Date: 4/16/2015
Location: Harvard University, Hindu Studies Colloquium
Primary URL:
http://sas.fas.harvard.edu/event/hindu-studies-colloquium-jinah-kim Primary URL Description: Link to the Harvard University, Hindu Studies Colloquium, program and presentation abstracts.
Sacred Space of a Manuscript: Design Strategies and Codicological Features in Medieval Indic Manuscripts (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Sacred Space of a Manuscript: Design Strategies and Codicological Features in Medieval Indic Manuscripts
Abstract: The early history of the art of the book in India owes much to the Buddhist practice of commissioning beautifully crafted books for religious merits. Once the idea of embellishing and illustrating text folios with paintings was introduced at the turn of the first millennium, initially in Buddhist context, makers and patrons of painted manuscripts experimented with various design strategies and codicological features, most of which emphasized a manuscript’s material quality as a three-dimensional, portable sacred object. By the mid-twelfth century, some Buddhist manuscript makers in eastern India and Nepal began to materialize the concept of a manuscript as a temple in a visually engaging manner. Jinah Kim demonstrate that her analogy of a book as a temple was a consciously chosen design strategy and locate this artistic practice in the larger historical context by drawing comparisons with the design strategies of manuscripts of other Indic religious traditions as well as those seen in temple architecture. Kim also take its ramifications beyond the artistic practice and consider it to be the theoretical framework behind the practice of painted manuscript making in medieval India.
Author: Jinah Kim
Date: 2/27/2015
Location: University of Chicago, Divinity School and the Franke Institute for the Humanities
Primary URL:
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/imce/conferences/merits/conference%20abstracts.pdfPrimary URL Description: Link to program and presentation abstracts for the conference "Merits of the Book: Buddhist Manuscript Traditions Across Asia."
A Manuscript’s Public Lives: Examples from South Asia (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: A Manuscript’s Public Lives: Examples from South Asia
Abstract: If reading is a private affair, a beautifully crafted, hand written manuscript ensures that experience be the most private experience of all: it is an object of irreproducible aura. Given this exclusivity, a manuscript experience may be placed at the opposite end of experiential spectrum to the experience of a printed book. Yet, in the case of pre-modern South Asia, where a long history of the supremacy of oral transmission of knowledge prevailed, a manuscript experience was often public. A carefully designed and executed manuscript was often made to serve an important ceremonial role as a ritual object conveying the text, which was performed orally and consumed aurally and visually. This paper explores the public lives of a group of palm-leaf manuscripts prepared during the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries in South Asia by engaging a wide-ranging, long dure´e approach.
Author: Jinah Kim
Date: 10/24/2014
Location: Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Primary URL:
https://english.stanford.edu/events/making-publics-past-present-future-publication-interdisciplinary-conferencePrimary URL Description: Link to the program for the Stanford University, Humanities Center, Interdisciplinary Conference: "Making Publics: The Past, Present & Future of Publication."
Art History's Tangled Legs (Book Section)Title: Art History's Tangled Legs
Author: Jessica Horton
Editor: David W. Penney
Editor: Kathleen Ash-Milby
Editor: Montclair Art Museum
Editor: Kay WalkingStick
Editor: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Editor: Dayton Art Institute
Abstract: Book Abstract: "Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist" is the companion catalogue to the exhibition (opened November 2015) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935) is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and one of the world's most celebrated artists of Native American ancestry. This volume includes essays by leading scholars and historians, arranged chronologically to guide readers through WalkingStick's life journey and rich artistic career, tracing a path of constant invention, innovation, and evolving artistic and personal growth through visually brilliant and evocative works of art.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/kay-walkingstick-an-american-artist/oclc/905600254&referer=brief_results#details-allauthorsPrimary URL Description: This URL links to the book’s citation in OCLC WorldCat.
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Book Title: Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist
ISBN: 1588345106
Ojibwa Tableaux Vivants: George Catlin, Robert Houle, and Transcultural Materialism (Article)Title: Ojibwa Tableaux Vivants: George Catlin, Robert Houle, and Transcultural Materialism
Author: Jessica Horton
Abstract: This essay reconsiders the legacy of Ojibwa travellers who performed tableaux vivants or ‘living pictures’ alongside George Catlin's Indian Gallery in Paris, 1845–46, many of whom died of smallpox before returning home. Contemporary Saulteaux artist Robert Houle's architectural installation, Paris/Ojibwa, first exhibited at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris in 2010, features a stage set peopled by paintings of the deceased travellers. Paris/Ojibwa invites us to see how tableaux vivants incorporated an Ojibwa understanding of the potential liveliness of images and objects. When wedded to complex indigenous notions of personhood, tableaux vivants reversed the ambitions of nineteenth-century ethnography: instead of turning living Natives into static images, they reanimated pictures. Inviting audiences to participate in an indigenous view of a shared modernity, Paris/Ojibwa restores sociability to the archive of Ojibwa representations and models transcultural materialism inside Western institutions.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8365.12184/abstract Primary URL Description: This URL provides a direct link to the article "Ojibwa Tableaux Vivants: George Catlin, Robert Houle, and Transcultural Materialism” by Jessica L. Horton, published in the Journal "Art History."
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Art History, Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 124–151
Publisher: Art History, on behalf of the Association of Art Historians (AAH)
Painted Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and the Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia (Article)Title: Painted Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and the Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia
Author: Jinah Kim
Abstract: What was the main principle behind the design strategies developed to prepare painted palm-leaf manuscripts in medieval South Asia? How did various Indic religious communities design their manuscripts? By bringing together surviving painted manuscripts of heterogeneous religious traditions as well as contemporaneous sculptural representations and textual sources relating to the ritual practices involving books, this study suggests that a book was conceived and designed as a temple in Indic context. Taking innovative design strategies of twelfth-century Buddhist manuscripts as a starting point, it also demonstrates how a larger, architectural approach can help us better understand the art of the book in India.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/614909Primary URL Description: This URL links to the annual journal “Archives of Asian Art” article abstract and full article.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Archives of Asian Art, Volume 65, Numbers 1-2, 2015, pp. 57-86
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Mind Pictures and Manuscript Paintings: Examples from Twelfth Century South Asia (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Mind Pictures and Manuscript Paintings: Examples from Twelfth Century South Asia
Abstract: How do we see and share a mental image? In the era of digital imaging and breakthroughs in neuroscience, capturing and sharing a mind’s image is a distinct possibility that once belonged to sci-fi movies. The desire and the needs to externalize, circulate, and control a mental image pushed and shaped the creative solutions seen in Buddhist painted palm-leaf manuscripts of twelfth century South Asia. This lecture demonstrated how the pictorial and manuscriptological strategies we find in painted palm-leaf manuscripts relate to the tantric vision practices, and how they opened up a unique way to share visual knowledge.
This lecture was presented as part of the "TT & WF Chao Buddhist Art Lecture Series."
Author: Jinah Kim
Date: 02/25/2016
Location: Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University
Primary URL:
https://hcbss.stanford.edu/events/jinah-kim-mind-pictures-and-manuscript-paintings-examples-twelfth-century-south-asia-0Primary URL Description: This URL links to the lecture program announcement, which includes a lecture abstract and presenter bio. It was updated to also provide a digital recording of the lecture.
Peepboxes, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China (Article)Title: Peepboxes, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China
Author: Kristina Kleutghen
Abstract: When European peepboxes and their associated perspectival views arrived in China in the seventeenth century, the elite who first encountered them treated these rarities as foreign curiosities. However, this essay shows that by the mid-nineteenth century not only had both the optical device and the art been sinicized into common local products, but the peepbox had also become a form of street entertainment specifically directed toward children and the lower classes. Unexpectedly, the translation of the peepbox and its perspectival views in early modern China, it is argued, therefore speaks as much to internal differences in class and sophistication as to perceived differences between China and the West.
(Special Issue: "Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World"; edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Meredith Martin)
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8365.12180/abstract Primary URL Description: This URL provides a direct link to the article "Peepboxes, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China" by Kristine Kleutghen, published in the Journal "Art History."
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Art History, Volume 38, Issue 4, pages 762–777
Publisher: Art History, on behalf of the Association of Art Historians (AAH)
Optical Devices, Art, and Visuality in China (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Optical Devices, Art, and Visuality in China
Author: Kristina Kleutghen
Abstract: When European optical devices were first introduced into early modern East Asia, these devices affected not only viewing experiences and ideas about vision, but also the production of art. In contrast to the well-established effects on Japanese art, the effects on Chinese art have barely been explored, in part because the science of optics did not develop significantly in China prior to the mid-nineteenth century. Yet from the seventeenth century onward, Qing domestic production and use of optical devices resulted in significant relationships with art at the imperial, elite, and popular levels. The devices and the viewing experiences that they mediated created varying levels of foreign intervention into Chinese art, vision, and visuality. However, the consistent but diverse methods of Sinification of all these elements and the reliance on domestic products rather than imports offers new insights into how Qing art engaged the West without being limited to either the court or the capital. Through an art-historical case study of several different optical devices and their related works of art that are all linked through one particular type of magnifying lens, this presentation examined how the production and consumption of these new objects and images varied by place, format, audience, and social status.
Date: 04/15/2016
Primary URL:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/vmpea/ Primary URL Description: This URL links to the Workshop program, with presentation abstracts.
Conference Name: Workshop - "Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia" University of Chicago, IL
Seeing the World Differently: Qing Art and Optical Devices (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Seeing the World Differently: Qing Art and Optical Devices
Author: Kristina Kleutghen
Abstract: Colloquium Abstract: The colloquium theme “Stimulation and Reanimation: Cultural and Artistic Exchanges between Asia and Europe,” examined exchanges and transformations engendered by the interaction between Asian and European art and culture since the sixteenth century, including: Giuseppe Castiglione and related topics; artistic and cultural exchange between China and Europe; and, the artistic and cultural exchange between various regions in Asia and Europe.
Date: 10/29/2015
Primary URL:
http://theme.npm.edu.tw/seminar/10410/en/agenda.htmlPrimary URL Description: This URL links to the Colloquium program schedule.
Conference Name: “Stimulation and Reanimation: Cultural and Artistic Exchanges Between Asia and Europe – A Colloquium in Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the National Palace Museum”; Location - National Palace Museum, Taipei
Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity (Book Section)Title: Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity
Author: Kleutghen, Kristina
Editor: Wang, Eugene
Editor: Silbergeld, Jerome
Abstract: China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as “running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers” and “the flies.” illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery in Chinese art. The book’s chapter contributors are leading scholars in Chinese art history and related fields.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9713-9780824846763.aspxPrimary URL Description: URL link to publication detail on the publishers webpage.
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press
Book Title: The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art
ISBN: 978-0-8248-46
The Local Exotic: Fabricating Foreign Taste in Qing Court Decorative Arts (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: The Local Exotic: Fabricating Foreign Taste in Qing Court Decorative Arts
Author: Kleutghen, Kristina
Abstract: This presentation was the keynote address for the international colloquium "Artistic Exchanges as Cultural Transfers Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," held at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France. The colloquium explored Sino-European artistic interactions by looking at some of the ways European and Chinese art and culture were shaped by these artistic exchanges. It investigated the processes of adaptation, transposition, and accommodation at work in these cultural transfers that encompassed various artistic and disciplinary fields such as garden and design history, material culture, drama, cultural history, and the histories of painting and collecting.
Date: 10/20/2016
Primary URL:
http://www.ea-aaa.eu/news/2016/09/international-symposium-artistic-exchanges-as-cultural-transfers-between-china-andPrimary URL Description: URL link to the colloquium's online brochure.
Conference Name: Artistic Exchanges as Cultural Transfers Between China and Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Terms of Vision in Late Imperial China (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Terms of Vision in Late Imperial China
Abstract: This lecture, "The Terms of Vision in Late Imperial China," was presented in October 2016, as part of the "2016-2017 Vanderbilt History Seminar: The History of the Senses and Emotions." The Vanderbilt History Seminar was established in 2008, to serve as a center for historical inquiry at Vanderbilt University. Each year ten to twelve seminars are sponsored on a common, yet broad theme in which important new scholarship and research are being produced.
Author: Kleutghen, Kristina
Date: 10/31/2016
Location: Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
Primary URL:
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/vhs/vhs16-17.phpPrimary URL Description: URL link to the 2016-2017 Vanderbilt History Seminar: "The History of the Senses and Emotions" program announcement.
Conceptualizing Viewership: The Terms of Visual Engagement with Art in Late Imperial China (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Conceptualizing Viewership: The Terms of Visual Engagement with Art in Late Imperial China
Author: Kleutghen, Kristina
Abstract: The presentation "Conceptualizing Viewership: The Terms of Visual Engagement with Art in Late Imperial China" was given at the Universität Heidelberg, Germany, as part of the conference, "Begriffsgeschichte as Global Concept and Traveling Theory."
Date: 5/1/2016
Primary URL: N/A
Conference Name: "Begriffsgeschichte as Global Concept and Traveling Theory," Universität Heidelberg, Germany
The Materiality of Color in the Ancient Mediterranean (Book Section)Title: The Materiality of Color in the Ancient Mediterranean
Author: Stager, Jennifer
Editor: Rachel Goldman
Abstract: This book chapter is part of a collection of 13 interdisciplinary essays that examine a wide range of topics, including the use and cultural significance of color in the Ancient World during the period 3000 B.C.- 600 A.D. The unifying theme of these essays is the exploration of colors that were preferred in ancient cultures, what social and cultural meanings were attached to them, and how a greater understanding of these cultures can be gained by examining how they used and perceived color. The essays cover the civilizations of Ancient China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and the Islamic world.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/essays-in-global-color-historyPrimary URL Description: URL link to publication description on the publishers website.
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: Gorgias Press, LLC.
Book Title: Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum
ISBN: 978-1-4632-058
Torn Bodies for Pleasure: Classicism and Monstrosity in Picasso’s “Illustrations” of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses (Book Section)Title: Torn Bodies for Pleasure: Classicism and Monstrosity in Picasso’s “Illustrations” of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses
Author: Stager, Jennifer
Editor: Michael Govan
Editor: Diana Magaloni
Abstract: Picasso & Rivera: Conversations Across Time explores the artistic dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera that spanned most of their careers. The book showcases nearly 150 iconic paintings, sculptures, and prints by both artists, along with objects from their native ancient Mediterranean and Pre- Columbian worlds. It gives an overview of their early training in national academies; important archaeological discoveries that occurred during their formative years; and their friendly and adversarial relationship in Montparnasse. Through a series of essays the book explores how the work of each artist was informed by artworks from the past.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://www.amazon.com/Picasso-Rivera-Conversations-Across-Time/dp/3791355554Primary URL Description: URL link to publication detail on Amazon.com
Access Model: Open Access
Publisher: Prestel
Book Title: Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time
ISBN: 978-3791355559
Picasso’s Narrative Classicism (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Picasso’s Narrative Classicism
Abstract: This presentation was part of the LACMA Guest Lecture program on the subject “Modernism and Classicism, Picasso and Rivera,” presented in conjunction with the exhibition Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time (December 4, 2016 – May 7, 2017). In this program the exhibition’s co-curator, Jennifer Stager, and contributing author to the related publication, Michele Greet, discussed the work of the two artists during the early 20th century. This event was moderated by Rachel Kaplan, a Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Author: Stager, Jennifer
Date: 1/21/2017
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Primary URL:
https://www.facebook.com/LACMA/videos/10154003930326566/Primary URL Description: URL link to the LACMA video of this guest lecture program posted on the institution's official Facebook page.
Manuscripts, Faith, and Trade across the Medieval Sahara (Book Section)Title: Manuscripts, Faith, and Trade across the Medieval Sahara
Author: Michelle Craig
Editor: Bryan C. Keene
Abstract: Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://shop.getty.edu/products/toward-a-global-middle-ages-encountering-the-world-through-illuminated-manuscripts-978-1606065983Primary URL Description: This URL provides access to the record for this book in the Getty Publications catalog.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Getty Publications
Book Title: Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts
ISBN: 978-1606065983
Across Desert Sands: Trans-Saharan Visual Culture and Exchange (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Across Desert Sands: Trans-Saharan Visual Culture and Exchange
Author: Michelle Craig
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Date: 5/5/2018
Primary URL:
https://dma.org/programs/event/islamic-art-symposium-intersections-visual-cultures-islamic-cosmopolitanismPrimary URL Description: The URL leads to the symposium page on the Dallas Museum of Art website.
Conference Name: Intersection: The Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism
Not a Mirage: Connectivity, Photographs, and the Sahara Desert (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Not a Mirage: Connectivity, Photographs, and the Sahara Desert
Author: Michelle Craig
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Date: 08/10/2017
Primary URL:
https://www.ug.edu.gh/events/arts-council-african-studies-association-acasa-17th-triennial-symposium-august-8-%E2%80%93-13-2017Primary URL Description: This URL leads to the Arts Council of the African Studies Association's 17th Triennial Conference page on the University of Ghana website.
Conference Name: Arts Council of the African Studies Association 17th Triennial Conference, Accra, Ghana
Ecolonial Holism (Article)Title: Ecolonial Holism
Author: Jessica Horton
Abstract: Found under Bully Pulpit on "Ecocriticism,” ed. Karl Kusserow.(Summer 2019)
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/ecocriticism/Primary URL Description: This URL leads to the Bully Pulpit article.
Access Model: Open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 5, no. 1
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries
Performing Paint, Claiming Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters on Paul Coze's Stage in Paris, 1935 (Article)Title: Performing Paint, Claiming Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters on Paul Coze's Stage in Paris, 1935
Author: Jessica Horton
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/11220Primary URL Description: This URL leads directly to the article in Transatlantica.
Access Model: Open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Transatlantica: Revue d'études américaines 2, special issue, "Dialoguing the American West in France"
Publisher: Association Francaise d'etudes Americaines
"All Our Relations" as an Eco-Art Historical Challenge: Lessons from Standing Bear's Muslin (Book Section)Title: "All Our Relations" as an Eco-Art Historical Challenge: Lessons from Standing Bear's Muslin
Author: Jessica Horton
Editor: Rebecca Zorach
Editor: Christopher P. Heuer
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecologies-agents-terrains/oclc/1026222117&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: This URL leads to the book listing in worldcat.org.
Secondary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/37340092/_All_Our_Relations_as_an_Eco-Art_Historical_Challenge_Lessons_from_Standing_Bears_MuslinSecondary URL Description: This URL leads to a PDF of the article on academia.edu.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Title: Ecologies, Agents, Terrains
ISBN: 978030023316
Indigenous Artists Against the Anthropocene (Article)Title: Indigenous Artists Against the Anthropocene
Author: Jessica Horton
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Indigenous+Artists+Against+the+AnthropocenePrimary URL Description: This URL leads to a PDF of the article on academia.edu.
Access Model: Open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Art Journal 76:2 (Summer 2017)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Plural Diplomacies Between Indian Termination and the Cold War: Contemporary American Indian Paintings in the 'Near East,' 1964–1966 (Article)Title: Plural Diplomacies Between Indian Termination and the Cold War: Contemporary American Indian Paintings in the 'Near East,' 1964–1966
Author: Jessica Horton
Abstract: For a special issue on “The Art of Cultural Diplomacy.” From 1964 to 1966, the United States Information Agency toured an exhibition of modern artworks titled Contemporary American Indian Paintings to Greece, Turkey, Iran, Algeria and Israel. Among other exhibitions of Native American art sent abroad during the Cold War, the paintings were intended to counter Soviet critiques of US colonization with a message of benevolent modernization, while deflecting international attention away from Indigenous decolonization struggles. This article positions the tour between federal Indian termination policy and Cold War propaganda, considering how Contemporary American Indian Paintings quietly slipped Native American diplomatic concerns into a global arena shaped by imperialism.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/32355369/Plural_Diplomacies_Between_Indian_Termination_and_the_Cold_War_Contemporary_American_Indian_Paintings_in_the_Near_East_1964_66Primary URL Description: This URL leads to a PDF of the article on academia.edu.
Access Model: Subscription or purchase only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Curatorial Studies, special issue, The Art of Cultural Diplomacy (Spring 2017)
Publisher: Intellect
Exotic Medicine: How Ignatius Sichelbarth's Painting of a Musk Deer Appeared in the Philosophical Transactions (Article)Title: Exotic Medicine: How Ignatius Sichelbarth's Painting of a Musk Deer Appeared in the Philosophical Transactions
Author: Kristina Kleutghen
Abstract: The musk deer is an unusual creature that once inhabited north China. Its musk was regarded as having significant medicinal properties, sparking renewed interest in the animal in 18th century England. Kristina Kleutghen discusses a painting of the musk deer by Ignatius Sichelbarth, S. J., an artist at the Qianlong emperor’s court, which was sent to the Royal Society in 1750 and engraved for publication in its Philosophical Translations.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/40961540/Exotic_Medicine_How_Ignatius_Sichelbarths_Painting_of_a_Musk_Deer_Appeared_in_the_Philosophical_TransactionPrimary URL Description: This URL leads to a PDF of the article in academia.edu.
Access Model: Subscription or purchase only
Format: Magazine
Periodical Title: Orientations, volume 50, issue 6: pages 103-109
Publisher: Orientations Magazine Ltd.
Past and Present: Classical Chinese Woodworking and Ai Weiwei's Furniture-Sculpture (Book Section)Title: Past and Present: Classical Chinese Woodworking and Ai Weiwei's Furniture-Sculpture
Author: Kristin Kleutghen
Editor: Sabine Eckmann
Abstract: The furniture-sculptures in this exhibition allow us to assess how Ai Weiwei's use of traditional craft techniques comments on what happens when society and culture engage the past and the present side by side. The relationship between the past and the present, especially the relative values that the present places on different aspects of the past, is always at stake in the reuse and rediscovery of traditional approaches. By rejointing the traditional and the contemporary—both literally and figuratively—Ai Weiwei's furniture-sculptures offer both a clear message supporting the continuation of traditions when creating contemporary art and a warning of what might happen when too much of the past is discarded.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/40998635/Rejointing_Past_and_Present_Classical_Chinese_Woodworking_and_Ai_Weiweis_Furniture-SculpturePrimary URL Description: This URL leads to a PDF of the chapter.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, University of Chicago Press
Book Title: Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, pages 95 - 111
ISBN: 978-0936316468
Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court (Book Section)Title: Flowering Stone: The Aesthetics and Politics of Islamic Jades at the Qing Court
Author: Kristin Kleutghen
Editor: Stacey Sloboda
Editor: Michael Yonan
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://www.academia.edu/39716127/Flowering_Stone_The_Aesthetics_and_Politics_of_Islamic_Jades_at_the_Qing_CourtPrimary URL Description: This URL leads to a PDF of the chapter on academia.edu.
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Book Title: Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds Global and Local Geographies of Art, pages 19-33
ISBN: 978-1501335488
Mapping Color in History (Web Resource)Title: Mapping Color in History
Author: Jinah Kim
Abstract: A digital humanities project that brings together scientific data drawn from existing and ongoing material analyses of pigments in Asian painting in a historical perspective.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
http://mappingcolor.fas.harvard.eduPrimary URL Description: This URL leads directly to the project.
Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal (Exhibition)Title: Dharma and Punya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal
Curator: Todd Lewis
Curator: Jinah Kim
Abstract: This exhibition highlights Nepal’s artistic heritage as a rich and enduring continuation of Indic Buddhist traditions. Featuring paintings, illustrated texts, sculptures, and ritual implements crafted by Newar artisans over the last millennium, Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal will be centered on how the Buddha’s teachings were arrayed as much for worldly householders as otherworldly seekers. As the title suggests, it will illustrate the centrality of ritual in Buddhism, showing how illustrated narratives and common practices address every devotee’s need to make good karma (puṇya), a central tenet of the Buddha’s teaching (dharma). Showing some objects never before displayed in the West, this historic exhibition will focus on the unparalleled contributions of Kathmandu Valley artisans and patrons not only in their communities, but in the subsequent development of Tibetan art.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://dharmapunya2019.orgPrimary URL Description: This URL leads to the listing presented by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross regarding this exhibition, which took place Sept 5 - Dec 14, 2019.
Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal (Book)Title: Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal
Editor: Todd Lewis
Editor: Jinah Kim
Abstract: Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal explores the centrality of ritual practices and the agency of people – patrons, ritual specialists, devotees – in creating and amplifying the efficacy of Buddhist art. Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis highlight the unparalleled contributions of Nepal’s artisans, patrons, and ritualists in engendering artistic heritage that is an endearing continuation of Indic Buddhist traditions. The publication presents paintings, illuminated texts, statues, and ritual implements from the Newar tradition in the Kathmandu Valley. Richly illustrated with photographs of contemporary rituals, religious observances, and historical examples, the essays provide cultural, historical and ritual contexts in which objects collected in art museums were used, and animate them. By recentering the historical imagination on communities, their rituals, and popular narrative traditions, Dharma and Puṇya challenges prevailing misconceptions about Buddhism in the West and expand our understanding of Buddhism as a lived world religion. Contributors include: Naresh Bajracharya, Louis Coppleston, Sonali Dhingra, James Giambrone, Jinah Kim, Todd Lewis, Bruce McCoy Owens, Alexander von Rospatt and Sumon Tuladhar.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
https://brill.com/view/title/55972Primary URL Description: This URL leads to the book's listing on the Brill distribution website.
Access Model: Available for purchase
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-9004416413
The Unbearable Whiteness of Whiteness (Article)Title: The Unbearable Whiteness of Whiteness
Author: Jennifer M.S. Stager
Abstract: No abstract provided.
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://www.artpractical.com/column/feature-the-unbearable-whiteness-of-whiteness/Primary URL Description: The URL leads directly to the article on the Art Practical website.
Access Model: Open access
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Art Practical, January 16, 2018
Publisher: Art Practical
Review of Aslı Çavuşoğlu: The Place of Stone exhibition, New Museum, New York (Report)Title: Review of Aslı Çavuşoğlu: The Place of Stone exhibition, New Museum, New York
Author: Jennifer M.S. Stager
Abstract: Review appeared in ASAP J, the open-access platform of ASAP Journal, on January 8, 2019.
Date: 01/08/19
Primary URL:
http://asapjournal.com/asli-cavusoglu-the-place-of-stone-jennifer-stager/Primary URL Description: This URL leads directly to the review on the ASAP J website.
Access Model: Open access
Air, Wind, Breath, Life: Desertification and Will Wilson’s AIR (Auto-Immune Response) (Book Section)Title: Air, Wind, Breath, Life: Desertification and Will Wilson’s AIR (Auto-Immune Response)
Author: Jessica L. Horton
Editor: James Nisbet
Editor: Lyle Massey
Abstract: Long viewed as a tabula rasa, the deserts of the American West have played a distinct role in the projection of American cultural identities. Historically represented through fantasies of individualism, frontier ruggedness, and land acquisition, the desert is also the site of extreme social and environmental violence. The Invention of the American Desert brings together a wide-ranging group of interdisciplinary essays that explore, through diverse perspectives, dialectical problems posed by an environment that has served as a testing ground for modernist experimentation, military-industrial incursions, and ecological disasters throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In light of the urgent climate crisis and the planet’s increasing desertification, this volume reflects on the nature and legacy of the desert as a crucible for competing visions of land, environment, and art.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306691/the-invention-of-the-american-desertAccess Model: Print
Publisher: University of California Press
Book Title: The Invention of the American Desert
ISBN: 9780520306691
Permaculture and Indigenous Futurism at Santa Clara Pueblo (Book Section)Title: Permaculture and Indigenous Futurism at Santa Clara Pueblo
Author: Rose Simpson
Author: Jessica Horton
Editor: Subhankar Banerjee
Editor: Emily Eliza Scott
Editor: T.J. Demos
Abstract: International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown?
Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change.
This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Contemporary-Art-Visual-Culture-and-Climate/Demos-Scott-Banerjee/p/book/9780367221102Access Model: Subscription
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: Routledge Companion to Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
ISBN: 9780367221102
Earth Diplomacy: Diné Arts of Reciprocity, 1966–1968 (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Earth Diplomacy: Diné Arts of Reciprocity, 1966–1968
Abstract: From 1966 to 1968, the United States government commissioned Diné (Navajo) artists Bertha and Fred Stevens to demonstrate weaving and sandpainting across Eurasia and Latin America, ostensibly as an exercise of Cold War “soft power.” Drawing upon Indigenous knowledge, International Relations theory, and the methods of ecocritical art history, Jessica Horton reframes the Stevens’ tour as a creative instance of what she calls “earth diplomacy.” This talk presents one strand of her current book project, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973, which examines how artists revitalized longstanding Indigenous cultures of diplomacy in the unlikely shape of Cold War tours, translating Native political ecologies across two decades and four continents.
Author: Jessica Horton
Date: 03/08/2021
Location: Courtauld Research Forum (online)
Primary URL:
https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-earth-diplomacy-dine-arts-of%E2%80%AFreciprocity-1966-1968The Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)Title: The Antioch Recovery Project (ARP)
Author: Jennifer M.S. Stager
Abstract: The Antioch Recovery Project (ARP) investigates mosaics from the ancient city of Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey, near the border with Syria) now in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Excavated by an international team of archaeologists in the 1930s, hundreds of ancient mosaics from the cosmopolitan city were subsequently dispersed to museums across the globe, with over thirty mosaics entering the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
http://antiochrecoveryproject.orgAccess Model: Open Access
Air, Wind, Breath, Life: Desertification and Will Wilson’s AIR (Auto-Immune Response) (Book Section)Title: Air, Wind, Breath, Life: Desertification and Will Wilson’s AIR (Auto-Immune Response)
Author: Jessica L. Horton
Editor: James Nisbet
Editor: Lyle Massey
Abstract: Book abstract: Long viewed as a tabula rasa, the deserts of the American West have played a distinct role in the projection of American cultural identities. Historically represented through fantasies of individualism, frontier ruggedness, and land acquisition, the desert is also the site of extreme social and environmental violence. The Invention of the American Desert brings together a wide-ranging group of interdisciplinary essays that explore, through diverse perspectives, dialectical problems posed by an environment that has served as a testing ground for modernist experimentation in art and architecture, military-industrial incursions, and ecological disasters throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In light of the urgent climate crisis and the planet’s increasing desertification, this volume reflects on the nature and legacy of the desert as a crucible for competing visions of land, environment, and art.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306691/the-invention-of-the-american-desertAccess Model: Purchase
Publisher: UC Press
Book Title: The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment
ISBN: 9780520306691
Garlands of Vision: Color, Tantra and a Material History of Indian Painting (Book)Title: Garlands of Vision: Color, Tantra and a Material History of Indian Painting
Author: Jinah Kim
Abstract: Garlands of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian Painting, explores the relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge—ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious—and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting.
Year: 2021
Primary URL:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343214/garland-of-visionsPrimary URL Description: Publisher webpage
Access Model: Purchase
Publisher: UC Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520343214
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