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VOLUME 18 VOLUME NO. 1 MARCH 2009 THE JOURNAL OF THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA TAASA Review CONTENTS Volume 18 No.1 March 2009 3 EDITORIAL: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TAASA REVIEW THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA INC. Josefa Green Abn 64093697537 • Vol. 18 No. 1, March 2009 ISSN 1037.6674 4 HAND ME DOWN: PERANAKAN CHINESE BEADWORK AND EMBROIDERY Registered by Australia Post. Publication No. NBQ 4134 Hwei-Fe’n Cheah editoriAL • email: [email protected] 7 AS AUSTRALIAN AS A SHAKUHACHI General editor, Josefa Green Riley Lee publications COMMITTEE 9 THE DANCING MONKS OF BHUTAN Josefa Green (convenor) • Tina burge Melanie Eastburn • Sandra Forbes • Ann MacArthur Tshering Tashi Jim Masselos • Ann Proctor • Susan Scollay Sabrina Snow • Christina Sumner 11 INDO-PERSIAN KINGSHIP AND ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN MALAYSIA DESIGN/layout Matt Cox Ingo Voss, VossDesign PRINTING 13 INTERVIEWING STEFANO CARBONI John Fisher Printing Josefa Green Published by The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. 14 EXHIBITION REVIEW: IMAGINING HAMPI PO Box 996 Potts Point NSW 2011 www.taasa.org.au Susan Scollay Enquiries: [email protected] 16 PRESERVING BUDDHA AND THE SIXTEEN PROTECTORS TAASA Review is published quarterly and is distributed to members Andrea Wise and Melanie Eastburn of The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. 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THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ARTICLES FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 1 APRIL 2009 A FULL INDEX OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN TAASA REVIEW since its beginnings THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ADVERTISING IN 1991 IS available ON THE TAASA WEB SITE, WWW.taasa.ORG.au FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 1 MAY 2009 2 TAASA COMMITTEE EDITORIAL: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Josefa Green, Editor Judith rutherford • PRESIDENT The topic of ‘adornment’ will feature strongly his distinguished career, including as Curator Collector and specialist in Chinese textiles this year: at VisAsia’s lunchtime lecture series and Administrator of the Department of GiLL Green • VICE PRESIDENT at the AGNSW, where TAASA will also run Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum, New Art historian specialising in Cambodian culture a seminar on jewellery on 25 July, and as part York, Dr Carboni has been responsible for Ann GuiLd • TREASURER Former Director of the Embroiders Guild (UK) of the NGV’s coming exhibition on Chinese such ground breaking exhibitions as “Venice KAte JohnSTON • SECRETARY imperial robes. So it seems appropriate for and the Islamic World: 828- 1797” in 2007. Intellectual property lawyer with this first issue of 2009 to open with an article He tells us that his principal interest lies in an interest in Asian textiles on embroidered and needle worked objects exploring the way Islamic art and culture has JOCELYN CHEY of adornment, as found in the 19th and early provided a bridge between East and West. Visiting Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, 20th century homes of any respectable nyonya University of Sydney; former diplomat or female member of the Peranakan Chinese Susan Scollay’s review of the Hampi exhibition Matt Cox Study Room Co-ordinator, Art Gallery of New South community in Singapore. Hwei-Fe’n Cheah at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne Wales, with a particular interest in Islamic Art of has completed her PhD on this topic and also touches on cross cultural influences, in Southeast Asia offers us a comprehensive overview of this this case in relation to the Hindu kingdom PHILIP Courtenay art form, now on show in the newly opened of Vijayanagara, which stood for over 200 Former Professor and Rector of the Cairns Campus, James Cook University, with a special interest in Singapore Peranakan Museum. years on the frontier of India’s Hindu and Southeast Asian ceramics Muslim cultures and which was eventually MELANIE EASTBURN In this issue we offer a number of “firsts”. In destroyed by its Mughal neighbours in Curator of Asian art, National Gallery of Australia the intriguingly named article “As Australian 1565. This exhibition is also a ‘first’ in the SANDRA FORBES as a Shakuhachi”, first time contributor Dr way it draws on archaeology, photography, Editorial consultant with long-standing interest in South and Southeast Asian art Riley Lee describes how this traditional computer animation and interactive media Josefa GREEN Japanese flute has become “internationalised” to bring the village of Hampi, within the General editor of TAASA Review. Collector of Chinese through a series of world festivals over the last ruins of the Vijayanagara kingdom, to vivid ceramics, with long-standing interest in East Asian 15 years, culminating in the highly successful life. An example of John Gollings’ brilliant art as student and traveller Sydney World Shakuhachi Festival in 2008. photography, taken from the Hampi exhibition, GERALDINE HARDMAN Collector of Chinese furniture and Burmese lacquerware Riley became the first ever non-Japanese is demonstrated on the cover of this issue. shakuhachi Grand Master in 1980 and we are ANN PROCTOR Lecturer in Asian Art, Sydney University really delighted to have such an outstanding Enthusiasts of East Asian art will be interested and the National Art School, Sydney musician share his expertise. in the next three articles on Japanese, Korean ANN ROBERTS and Chinese topics. Andrea Wise and Melanie Art consultant specialising in Chinese You will also find our first ever article from Eastburn from the NGA cover, respectively, ceramics and works of art Bhutan, contributed by Tshering Tashi, the conservation and art historical aspects SABRINA SNOW Has a long association with the Art Gallery of New co-founder and director of the Australia of the NGA’s Kamakura period (1185-1333) South Wales and a particular interest in the arts of China Bhutan Friendship Association. He describes scroll “Buddha and the sixteen protectors”. CHRISTINA SUMNER the extraordinary dance rituals performed by This scroll has recently been restored courtesy Principal Curator, Design and Society, Buddhist monks in festivals across Bhutan. of the Japanese Government and will be Powerhouse Museum, Sydney His account encourages us to see beyond the exhibited in the AGSA’s exhibition “The HON. Auditor Rosenfeld Kant and Co spectacle, to understand the deeper sacred and Golden Journey”, opening 6 March. meditative purpose of these ritual dances. state representatives Another important exhibition, opening 5 AuSTRAliAn CAPiTAl TERRiToRy Another first time contributor is Matt Cox March at the AGNSW, is “Korean dreams”, ROBYN MAXWELL from the AGNSW, providing an interesting featuring late Joseon dynasty paintings from Visiting Fellow in Art History, ANU; Senior Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia perspective on the influences shaping Islamic the Musée Guimet, Paris. Jackie Menzies, NORTHERN TERRITORY architecture in Malaysia. He convincingly head curator of Asian Art, explains how neo- Joanna Barrkman argues that, though the presence of Indian Confucian and other influences produced Curator of Southeast Asian Art and Material Culture, and Persian influences has more usually been a broad new repertoire of paintings in this Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory explained as the peripheral consequence of period. These will be featured in this exhibition QUEENSLAND English intervention in the 20th century, three and discussed at a study day on 7 March. In Suhanya RAFFEL 18th century Malaccan mosques demonstrate the last of this trio, Dr John Millbank reports Head of Asian and Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery much earlier indo-Persian influences of the on the Chinese Buddhist Art symposium SOUTH AUSTRALIA Deccan kingdom of Bidjapur, that flourished held in August 2008 in conjunction with the JAMES BENNETT Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia from 1490 to 1686. AGNSW’s exhibition “The Lost Buddhas”. VICTORIA CAROL CAINS This Islamic theme is echoed by the interview A general issue of the TAASA Review provides Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, I was privileged to have with Stefano Carboni, an opportunity to offer a diverse range of topics National Gallery of Victoria International newly appointed Director the Art Gallery of to our readers. No matter what your interests, TASMANIA Western Australia and Islamic Art expert.

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