NOV/DEC 2004

VOLUME - 35 - NUMBER 8

The articles in this issue are diverse in subject matter but all throw light on the impact benefactors and collectors have on cultural institutions. Through their generosity, Krishna Riboud, Peter Moores, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leonard Lauder have shaped the collections of premier American and European museums, and stimulated interest in new areas of Asian art, from textiles, Indian paintings and Chinese bronzes to Japanese swords and postcards. Tseng Yuho Ecke's gift to the Sackler is a lasting tribute to her husband Gustav Ecke, whose pioneering research in Chinese furniture probably inspired modern connoisseurs like Ignazaio Vok.

In colloboration with the Pacific Asia Museum, a group of collectors, scholars and dealers have come together to intitiate groundbreaking research in the hitherto neglected field of Tibetan furnitiure. The rich material at the Wellcome Library would not exist but for the ambitious enterprise of Sir Henry Wellcome. With the same seriousness of purpose they applied in their professional academic lives, Sylvan Barnet and Willian Burto have, in their collection of Japanese material, shown us new ways of looking at and thinking about art.

FEATURES
Martin Lerner, Adele Schlombs and Andrew Kahane. Obituary: Isidor Kahane (1921-2004)
Sylvan Barnet and William Burto. How Buddhist Roof-Tiles Mean
Barbara Rizza Mellin. Art in Miniature: Japanese Postcards
Victor Harris. Cutting Edge: Japanese Swords in the British Museum
Nigel Allan. Jewels of Miniature Painting from India on Display in London
Anne Breckenridge Dorsey. Transcending Form and Function: A New Look at Tibetan Furniture
Jessica Rawson. Chinese Bronzes at Compton Verney
Jan Stuart. A Gift of Chinese Furniture to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Adele Schlombs. An Architect's Love Affair: The Ignazio Vok Collection of Chinese Furniture
Vincent Lefevre. Lumieres de soie: Homage to Krishna Riboud at the Musee Guimet
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Douglas J.K. Wright. Book Review: Hollis Goodall et al.: The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Media Resources Inc., Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003
Peter Hardie. Book Review: Emily Byrne Curitis, with essays by Ricardo Joppert, Ma Wenkuan and Daphne Lange Rosenzweig: Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot and Burlington, 2004
COMMENTARY
An Interview with Cynthia Hazen Polsky
Cecilia Braghin. An Interview with Sir Peter Moores
COMMENTARY
Wai-kam Ho. Commentary: The Eye in a Storm: Charting the Paths of Connoisseurship