Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms: Artistic Communities and Patronage in Asia

book: Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms

Artistic Communities and Patronage in Asia

Edited by: Julia A.B. Hegewald

Volume 5 in the series Dependency and Slavery Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110979855

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Have you ever thought about dependencies in Asian art and architecture?

Most people would probably assume that the arts are free and that creativity and ingenuity function outside of such reliances. However, the 13 chapters provided by specialists in the fields of Asian art and architecture in this volume show, that those active in the visual arts and the built environment operate in an area of strict relations of often extreme dependences. Material artefacts and edifices are dependent on the climate in which they have been created, on the availability of resources for their production, on social and religious traditions, which may be oral or written down and on donors, patrons and the art market. Furthermore, gender and labour dependencies play a role in the creation of the arts as well. Despite these strong and in most instances asymmetrical dependencies, artists have at all times found freedoms in expressing their own imagination, vision and originality.

This shows that dependencies and freedoms are not necessarily strictly separated binary opposites but that, at least in the area of the history of art and architecture in Asia, the two are interconnected in what are often complex and multifaceted layers.

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Julia A. B. Hegewald, University of Bonn, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Julia A. B. Hegewald Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Chapter 1. Introduction: Embodiments of Dependencies and Freedoms in Asian Art Julia A. B. Hegewald Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Climate and Resource Dependencies in Buddhist Art and Architecture along the Northern Silk Road Birgit Angelika Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	33
Chapter 3. Temple Architecture in Coastal Karnataka: An Interplay of Climatic Dependencies and Artistic Freedoms Julia A. B. Hegewald Open Access Download PDF	69
Chapter 4. Chinese Export Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty and its Dependence on Foreign Silver Daniel Suebsman Open Access Download PDF	97
Chapter 5. ‘Slaves of God’: Extreme Religious Dependency in Medieval South India (800–1100 CE) Tiziana Lorenzetti Open Access Download PDF	121
Chapter 6. Usages and Instrumentalisations of the Sanskrit Term ‘Dāsī/Dāsa’ (Servant-Slave) in Pre-Colonial and Colonial South India: The Case of the Devadāsīs and Rājadāsīs Tiziana Leucci Open Access Download PDF	143
Chapter 7. Mediating Śakti: Embodied Dependencies and Senses in Teyyam, Malabar, South India Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali Open Access Download PDF	195
Chapter 8. Patterns of Dependency in the Buddhist Tantric Iconography of Nepal Gudrun Bühnemann Open Access Download PDF	239
Chapter 9. Dependence and Freedom in the Theory and Practice of Indian Temple Architecture Adam Hardy Open Access Download PDF	253
Chapter 10. Bound by Tradition?: An Investigation of the Extreme Dependency of Artists on Un-written Artistic Conventions for Dance Imagery in Sculpture and Painting Sandra Jasmin Schlage Open Access Download PDF	291
Chapter 11. Dependencies and Artistic Freedom in the Context of Himalayan Conservation Projects Amy Heller Open Access Download PDF	319
Chapter 12. Countering Cerebral Invasions: Sculptors Against Dependencies Kanika Gupta Open Access Download PDF	347
Chapter 13. The Story Tellers of Mysore: Regime Change and the Musarrati Performance Artists of Tipu Sultan’s Court Jennifer Howes Open Access Download PDF	365
Chapter 14. Indigenous Modernities in Dependent Princely States: Design of Public and Civic Spaces in Baroda Pratyush Shankar and Snigdha Srivastava Open Access Download PDF	389
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	409
List of Plates Open Access Download PDF	425
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	433
Index Open Access Download PDF	437

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of Dependency Studies, History of Asian art and architecture, Asian History, Religious Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 451
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 132
Keywords: Architecture; art; Asia; dependecy

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Published: March 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783110979855

Hardcover

Published: March 20, 2023
ISBN: 9783110991109