JAN/FEB 2015

VOLUME 46 - NUMBER 1

Art does not exist within a vacuum. Artists and their creations are the products of centuries—sometimes millennia—of exploration, experimentation and struggle.

Our first issue of 2015 presents enquiries into such lineages. Coinciding with an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Felice Fischer presents a survey of notable artists of the Kano tradition, and that school’s integral importance to Japanese art as we know it. In connection with the Asia Society exhibition ‘Buddhist Art of Myanmar’, Don Stadtner analyses a circa 12th century cloth painting found in fragments in a Pagan temple, to reveal the complex ties that link Myanmar and the wider Buddhist world.

Rob Linrothe introduces the themes and thoughts behind a show on the art of Kashmir at the Block Museum of Art, and he and Melissa Kerin consider the artistic influence of Kashmir in the Western Himalayas with reference to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s circa 16th century painting of Avalokiteshvara from Ngari.

The relatively recent emergence of women as practitioners of Asian art represents a paradigm shift in the development of artistic traditions, as exemplified by two female contemporary artists who bring fresh perspectives to their fields: Tomoko Nagakura and Jason Steuber interview Japanese ceramicist Nakaigawa Yuki, whose sculptures are inspired by natural forms, while Allysa Peyton meets with Nusra Latif Qureshi, a Pakistani artist of miniature painting and digital works.

We talk to Peter ten Hoopen about his collection of ikat, on view in Lisbon, and Heping Liu reflects on the life and work of art historian Anne de Coursey Clapp.

FEATURES
Felice Fischer. Ink and Gold: Art of the KanoTomoko Nagakura and Jason Steuber. Fired Dynamism: The Ceramics of Nakaigawa Yuki
Donald M. Stadtner. ‘…. if you spill a single drop’ Innovation in the Jataka Traditions of Pagan
Rob Linrothe. Kashmir and ‘Collecting Paradise’
Melissa R. Kerin and Rob Linrothe. Recollecting Kashmir: Cleveland’s Eleven-headed, Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara
Allysa B. Peyton. Loaded Histories: The Global Constructions of Nusra Latif Qureshi
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Olaf Czaja. Book Review: Picturing Enlightenment: Tibetan Tangkas in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Margaret Tao. Asia Week New York Auctions — September 2014
INTERVIEWS
Woven Languages: An Interview with Peter ten Hoopen
NEWS
Bill Caskey (1947-2014)
Heping Liu. Anne de Coursey Clapp (1928 - 2013)