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Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900 book cover

1st Edition

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900

Edited By Melia Belli Bose Copyright 2016
394 Pages 127 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500–1900 brings women's engagements with art into a pan-Asian dialogue with essays that examine women as artists, commissioners, collectors, and subjects from India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The artistic media includes painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles, and photography.... Read more

Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Queens, Courtesans, and Collectors: Women’s Engagement with Art in Asia
Melia Belli Bose

PART 1
Matrons, Art, and Power

1 Mapping Holkar Identity and the Good Name of Ahilyabai
Cathleen Cummings

2 Royal Matronage and a Visual Vocabulary of Indian Queenship: Ahilyabai Holkar’s Memorial Commissions
Melia Belli Bose

3 Heavenly Mistress and Bodhisattva: Visualizing the Divine Identities of Two Empresses in Ming China (1368–1644)
Luk Yu-Ping

4 A Very “Modern” Matron: Phra Rachaya Dara Rasami as Promoter and Preserver of Lan Na Culture in Early Twentieth-century Siam
Leslie Woodhouse

PART II
Women’s Work and Working Women

5 Imagining Du Liniang in The Peony Pavilion: Female Painters, Self-portraiture, and Paintings of Beautiful Women in Late Ming China
Lara C.W. Blanchard

6 Creating Art in Japan’s Imperial Buddhist Convents: Devotional Practice and Cultural Pastime
Patricia Fister

7 Women’s Work: Phulkari, Flora Annie Steel, and Collecting Textiles in British India
Cristin McKnight Sethi

PART III
Depicting the Exemplary Woman

8. Defining a Woman: The Painting of Sin Saimdang
Sunglim Kim

9 Properly Female: Illustrated Books of Morals for Women in Edo Japan
Elizabeth Lillehoj

10 Absence and Presence: Representations of Human and Non-human Females in Tibetan Thangkas
Serinity Young

PART IV
Gender in Liminal Spaces
11 Reconsidering Gender Realms: The Garden as Site and Setting in Late Imperial Shanghai
Kristen Chiem

12 Women Who Crossed the Cordon
Ikumi Kaminishi

13 A Multi-gendered Scandal: The Survival of the Prostitute Meme, Asazuma Boat
Miriam Wittles

Index

Biography

Melia Belli Bose is Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

"...A rich volume, packed with original analyses, often of artists or artworks that have not received much (or any) attention to date. It is also the first edited volume to look at the question of gender in Asian art as a whole. This volume will make an important contribution to the fields of gender studies as well as Asian art." Deborah Hutton, The College of New Jersey, USA
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