MAR 2003
VOLUME 34 - NUMBER 3
Solidarity among museums, fair organizers, auction houses and dealers will ensure a spectacle of Asian art in New York this spring, despite current uncertainties. Three features in this issue are devoted to Japan Society's exhibition, 'Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan' (9 April-22 June). Kang Woobang traces the development of iconography in Korean sculpture; Konno Toshifumi examines three wood images from Daian-ji; and Alexandra Monroe discusses some of the issues raised by this challenging project. On 8 March, the new Asian art galleries will open at the Norton Museum of Art in Florida. John Finlay introduces highlights of the Chinese art collection and talks to E. Robert Hunter about his tenure as director of the museum. Shawn Eichman's article provides insight into topics to be explored in the symposium accompanying the ongoing exhibition 'Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain' at the University of Virginia Art Museum. To mark New York's Asia Week, there are previews of gallery exhibitions, the Arts of Pacific Asia Show and the International Asian Art Fair. Finally, Michael Martin's commentary addresses the much-debated issue of cultural patrimony.
FEATURES
Shawn Eichman. Immortals of the Wine Cup: Religious Images on Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain
John R. Finlay. The Chinese Collection of the Norton Museum of Art
Konno Toshifumi. Questions of Representation and Iconography in Wood Sculptures Daian-ji
Kang Woobang. A True Picture of Korean Buddhist Art and its Status in the Asian Art World
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Fair Preview: The International Asian Art Fair in New York
Fair Preview: The Arts of Pacific Asia Show in New York
Hwang Yin. Book Review: Hedda Morrison (Dong Jianzhong, trans.), Yangjingtou li de Lao Beijing (Old Beijing Through the Western Lens), Beijing Chubanshe, 2001
Hwang Yin. Book Review: Peter Moss, Passing Shadows: Hong Kong, FormAsia Books Ltd, Hong Kong, 2003
Stephen Little. Book Review: Joanna Capon, Guide to Museums in China, Orientations Magazine Ltd, Hong Kong, 2002
Ian Alsop. Book Review: Patan Museum Guide, Patan Museum, Nepal, 2002
Angus Forsyth. Book Review: Tim Doling, Cambodia Arts Directory Research and compilation, Visiting Arts, London, 2001
INTERVIEWS
John R. Finlay. Interview with E. Robert Hunter
Interview with Alexandra Munroe
NEWS
Julia Curtis, Kathryn H. Selig Brown and Cecilia Braghin. Gallery News
Robert P. Piccus. Charlotte Horstmann (1908-2003)
James C.Y. Watt. Obituary: C. Douglas Dillon (1909-2003)
COMMENTARY
Michael R. Martin. Commentary: Rethinking Cultural Patrimony