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Zusatztext "...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 Informationen zum Autor Melia Belli Bose is Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington! USA. Klappentext How unusual was it for women to engage directly with art? What factors precluded more women from doing so? In what ways did women's artwork or commissions differ from those of men? And! what were the range of meanings for woman as subject matter? This book deals with historic individuals about whom there is considerable biographical information. Zusammenfassung How unusual was it for women to engage directly with art? What factors precluded more women from doing so? In what ways did women's artwork or commissions differ from those of men? And, what were the range of meanings for woman as subject matter? This book deals with historic individuals about whom there is considerable biographical information. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction: Queens! Courtesans! and Collectors: Women's Engagement with Art in Asia Melia Belli BosePART 1Matrons! Art! and Power 1 Mapping Holkar Identity and the Good Name of Ahilyabai Cathleen Cummings2 Royal Matronage and a Visual Vocabulary of Indian Queenship: Ahilyabai Holkar's Memorial Commissions Melia Belli Bose3 Heavenly Mistress and Bodhisattva: Visualizing the Divine Identities of Two Empresses in Ming China (1368-1644) Luk Yu-Ping4 A Very "Modern" Matron: Phra Rachaya Dara Rasami as Promoter and Preserver of Lan Na Culture in Early Twentieth-century Siam Leslie WoodhousePART IIWomen'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. Blanchard6 Creating Art in Japan's Imperial Buddhist Convents: Devotional Practice and Cultural PastimePatricia Fister7 Women's Work: Phulkari! Flora Annie Steel! and Collecting Textiles in British India Cristin McKnight SethiPART IIIDepicting the Exemplary Woman 8.Defining a Woman: The Painting of Sin Saimdang Sunglim Kim9 Properly Female: Illustrated Books of Morals for Women in Edo Japan Elizabeth Lillehoj10 Absence and Presence: Representations of Human and Non-human Females in Tibetan Thangkas Serinity YoungPART IVGender in Liminal Spaces 11 Reconsidering Gender Realms: The Garden as Site and Setting in Late Imperial Shanghai Kristen Chiem12 Women Who Crossed the Cordon Ikumi Kaminishi13 A Multi-gendered Scandal: The Survival of the Prostitute Meme! Asazuma Boat Miriam WittlesIndex ...
