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n 8 October, 2020, in what may be one of the longest bidding wars in auction Ohistory, extending beyond 75 minutes with more than 100 bids, a 13th/early 14th- century imperial scroll, Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback, by the Yuan-dynasty master painter Ren Renfa (1255-1328), sold for HK$306.6 million (US$39.6 million) to the Long Museum in Shanghai. This establishes the handscroll as the most valuable work sold at Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback by Ren Renfa (1255-1327), Yuan dynasty, ink and colour on paper, handscroll, 35.2 x 210.7 cm, auction in Asia in 2020, and the most valuable sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on 8 October, making it the most valuable work of art currently sold at auction in Asia in 2020 Chinese ink painting sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Measuring two metres across, the scroll and taken to the US, where it was subsequently of Post-war Chinese Art, sold over two wanlingui, which achieved HK$57 million (US$7 depicts five drunken princes – one of whom acquired by Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007), a consecutive seasons of the 2020 Spring and million), over 10 times the pre-sale estimate. later became the Tang-dynasty emperor Xuan distinguished dealer and collector of Chinese art. Autumn sales, saw the top lot, Chen Ting There was strong bidding elsewhere in the Zong (685-762), taking a spirited horse ride Elsewhere, in the Modern Art sales, the top Shih’s Day and Night #25, sell for HK$1 million sale, with the total Autumn 2020 Sales series accompanied by four attendants. lot went to Sanyu’s Fleurs dans un pot bleu et (US$130,000), five times its pre-sale estimate. achieving HK$3.35 billion/US$432 million, With much of Ren Renfa’s output either held in blanc, which realized HK$187 million In the Southeast Asian art sales Sudjana becoming more successful than the Autumn museums, or by private collectors, this widely (US$24.1 million), followed by Sanyu’s Nu at Kerton’s Indonesian Village Life, the top lot, sold 2019 Sales series. The sales were in a new hybrid published scroll is one of the rare surviving works HK$169 million (US$21.8 million), and Wu for HK$8 million (US$1 million) and format, devised after the declaration of a global by the painter to come to auction. Having Guanzhong’s Scenery of Northern China at Handiwirman Saputra’s Weekend and Organic pandemic this year. The live-streamed evening impeccable provenance, it was kept in the HK$151 million (US$19.5 million). Two other Projects from No Roots No Shoots #3 achieved sales in Hong Kong attracted over two million imperial collection of the Qing dynasty (1644- sales in the paintings series were 100% sold. HK$2.5 million (US$325,000), setting a new views, across digital and social media platforms, 1911) and catalogued in Shiqu Baoji Xubian, the The seven works by Chu Teh-Chun and Zao auction record for the artist. with 46% of sales sold to online bidders. second volume of the inventory of the Qing Wou-Ki had a combined total of HK$153.4 Chinese furniture also performed well, with 21 Sotheby’s have created additional digital emperors’ collection of paintings and calligraphy. million (US$20 million), led by Chu Teh- pieces of huanghuali furniture from a private initiatives to attract buyer, such as guided Following the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Chun’s seminal painting No.312, which collection selling for HK$203 million (US$26 online tours, virtual exhibitions, enhanced the painting was brought out of the Forbidden exceeded its high estimate to sell for HK$60.7 million) alongside a large pair of 17th-century digital catalogues, and expansion into Chinese City in 1922 by Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, million (US$7.8 million). The Bell’s Collection huanghuali square-corner display cabinets, social platforms. News in brief

TATEr B itain €1.1 million to museums for provenance Chila Kumari Singh Burman has created a research, including – for the first time – to new light installation for Tate Britain’s annual institutions with collections of Chinese art. Click here Winter Commission, which was unveiled in The immediate goal is to have a browsable for more information time for the Diwali festival. Burman is database by the end of next year.So far, the celebrated for her interdisciplinary practices foundation has funded 23 projects with a total which span printmaking, painting, of €2.5 million ($2.9 million), making the installation and film. It is the fourth in a most recent funding round, its third, the series of outdoor commissions to mark the largest yet. The foundation, founded in 2015, winter season and can be seen on the outside initially had a specific focus on Nazi- of the building until 31 January, 2021. confiscated art, but has since expanded its mission to include colonial contexts and the b rooklyn museum of former German Democratic Republic. art The Brooklyn Museum announces more newgi di tal art prize, than 150 major new acquisitions across singapore departments. From Korea are six sets of rare The Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize, ceramic epitaph plaques (circa 1480-1682), which comes with a cash award of up to gifted by the Carroll Family Collection, US$15,000 (S$20,490), is open to Southeast making the assemblage of these important Asian artists aged 18 to 40 years old. The documents the largest outside of Korea. The deadline for entries is 28 February, 2021. addition of these pieces makes the Brooklyn Works can include digital paintings, video art museum home to the largest collection of and virtual reality artwork. The award has two epitaph plaques outside of Korea, bolstering categories: Still Image and Moving Image. the museum’s reputation as one of the world’s Three winners will be selected from each foremost repositories of Korean art. Epitaph category, and receive US$15,000, US$10,000 plaques are quintessentially Korean objects, or US$5,000. Submissions should reflect at invented to provide a durable means of least one of these themes: arising Asia, digital recording the biographies of noted individuals disruption, energy transition, feeding the after their passing. Composed in Chinese world, future cities, sustainability, or shifting characters in underglaze pigments on white lifestyles and inequality. Send entries to clay, these objects offer rare examples of dated https://www.juliusbaer.com/en/spotlight/ ceramics and are often the sole source of next-generation-art-prize/ information about historical individuals. Asian Art Sale the kangxi atlas g erman lost art The Topographical Collection of King George 10 December 2020 foundation III, held by the British Library in London The German Lost Art Foundation captures four centuries of visual impressions of Asian Art Online Only announced that it will grant an additional continued on page 2 7 December 2020

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In addition, I have Becoming an artist in residence at and transform it into impeccable London W8 4GT been playing online games since the Google mainly gave me the sound and harmony. For New York, United Kingdom age of eight, and I guess one could opportunity to find out, in depth, Berlin, Stockholm, and for the LA [email protected] call me a gamer. In games, you how AI operated. Before that, I had Philharmonic project at Frank tel +44 (0)20 7229 6040 always play with machines with AI, already been working with data, Gehry’s Disney Hall, we trained our Buy online at as the machine reacts to your actions. completing my first projection in a AI with every single sound recorded asianartnewspaper.com Melting Memories (2018), Istanbul, From my childhood on, I have public space in 2011. Therefore, I was by the LA Philharmonic over the for back issues, subscriptions, explores the materiality of remembering dreamt about working with AI. already aware how data worked, what past 75 years whether it was and digital editions © Refik Anadol A major change took place in 2016, data meant, why machines needed Stravinsky, Mozart, or Beethoven. Changes of address when I became one of the first data, and most importantly, what we All these sounds were collected, and Information as above artists-in-residence at Google, could do with data as humans. Then, Refik Anadol. Photo: Efsun Erkilic subsequently trained AI to dream writing the algorithm or collecting the Annual print subscription I understood that AI needed data to something deciding what I should the music. create meaning. Aware of what data say, what I should hear, why would I data, or is every step of the way a major (8 issues a year) undertaking? AAN: It seems that with your projects UK £45 meant, I was nevertheless not aware not use machine consciousness? And RA: you manage to capture features like Rest of Europe £50 news in brief of how to use AI. what would happen if I could use it I wondered Every single step is as Rest of World £55 Winter 2020 With all these questions regarding and turn it into a pigment, or a challenging. First of all, when you emotions, time, and movement that US residents US$90 2 People AI, I kept thinking about how, as sculpture, or a performance? That has what a machine work with AI there is a curatorial cannot be achieved in traditional (including airmail postage) AI-artist Refik Anadol explains paintings. Are these the elements you Monthly except for Winter Quarter humans, we take information from basically been my mindset since challenge: what is the data we are places throughout the world, from annotations in Italian transcribe rso eberys, this emerging art form life, turn it into knowledge, and 2012, trying to transform data into a would do with dealing with? What is this machine are trying to emphasise? (Dec-Feb) and 5 Chinese artist Lu Yang RA: Summer Quarter (June-Aug) maps and atlases to architectural names of provinces, cities, rivers and london eventually, this knowledge becomes pigment. However, this pigment is learning? What information do we Every project is different, but all drawings, cartoons and islands. The hand is likely to be that A royal Sidi manuscript highlighting discusses her latest projects wisdom (similar to a very humanistic not the one we know that dries. This someone else’s need to make that concept begin with the data. One project uses £30 digital subscription per year watercolours. The collection is a of Father Matteo Ripa, the Italian the extraordinary but little explored approach). I was wondering what a pigment is in flux, in motion. It is in understandable? For example, for the all these invisible signals in the distinct part of the larger King’s Jesuit, engraver of the copperplate history of Africans in India sold for Features machine would do with someone pixel format, like pixelisation, using memory city of New York, we collected 130 world, Wi-Fi, LTE, Bluetooth, etc. Copyright 2020 edition of the map. It was also Ripa 7 Turkmen and Miao Jewellery, Library which was presented to the £212,500 (est £8-12,000) in London else’s memory? What if a machine light as a material, because in my million images of the city. We know that millions of people are Nation by George IV in 1823. Since who presented the copperplate set of in October. The manuscript comes in San Antonio, Texas could take that information and do imagination, when data becomes a Technically, if I am an AI typing in communicating with each other, our © The Asian Art Newspaper 8 The new Museum of Art & The Asian Art Ltd last month, the images are available Kangxi atlas to George I in London from first half of the 19th century something with it? I have pigment, it is not static, but always in the words ‘New York’, as an AI, I headphones are communicating Photography in Bengaluru, All rights reserved. No part of this for anyone to view online via the on his way home from China. from the African ruled state of continuously been inspired by flux, becoming a living canvas. download everything in order to without wires, the machines are newspaper may be reproduced British Library’s digital Flickr Sachin in Gujarat. A self-contained South India dreams, memories, imagination, The other correlation I draw on is pigment when using AI. Basically, learn. But then, after downloading getting data from these signals. As a without written consent. Commons collection. ruiu b n m seum of nation founded in 1791, Sachin had 9 Seeking Immortality, ancient which have always been my toolset. the architecture that surrounds us. I these are concepts that were not this data, I have to curate it, as I result, some projects are visualising The Asian Art Newspaper is not art, new york artefacts on show in Arizona responsible for the statements The vast first, engraved, edition its owncavalry and state band that AI opened new perspectives, always think that the buildings will predictable for the previous cannot just use whatever I have invisible data, some projects visualise Kangxi Map of China of 1710, is The museum has announced that it included Africans, in addition to its becoming this ‘thing’ that lets you remember us, that they will dream. generation of artworks. Now, we are found. For example, as our projects brain signals, whereas some projects expressed in contributed articles TRAVEL and commentaries. part of this resource. For the is closing its third-floor galleries s own coats of arms, currency and paint with a thinking brush. That is Architecture will go beyond these truly using human consciousness and are not about personal things or visualise the machine’s dreams – a 10 The Himalayan town of Gangtok Advertisments are accepted in Chinese authorities mapping where the permanent collection stamped paper. It remained why I needed to learn how to use AI boring walls, whether in concrete, machine consciousness together, and moments, we are looking for sort of hallucination – so it is really good faith, but are the represented a means of control over exhibition Masterworks of independent until integrated into the – to create new stories and new glass, or steel. The future of collaborate with a thing that does buildings, skies, floral systems, all about understanding. The main responsibility of the advertiser and areas conquered by the Manchu Himalayan Art is currently on view, Indian state in 1948. The highly narratives. architecture will be our not forget. objects, streets – but not people. In question is what does it really mean The Asian Art Newspaper is not liable for any claims made in Qing Dynasty. The resulting Kangxi and begin construction on a new prized manuscript was written in consciousness. This leads me to the order to make that happen, we need to be a human in the 21st-century? Atlas (taking its name from the interactive space for social and Persian and Urdu, during the reign AAN: What type of doors can AI art question of how I can imagine a AAN: Within your projects, what do you to write another AI algorithm letting In my opinion, this century is all advertisements. 11 open compared to ‘regular art’ created consider the most challenging part: continued on page 4 Price guides and values are solely emperor, who ruled from 1661- emotional learning for all ages. of the Nawab of Sachin, Bahadur future that is more realistic than the the AI learn what a person, a with canvas, colour, and brush? for readers’ reference and 1722), was completed from the Scheduled to reopen fall 2021, the (r 1802-1853). Though most of its one that you perceive? It occurred to The Asian Art Newspaper accepts surveys carried out between 1708 third floor, renamed Mandala Lab, subjects were Hindu Sachin was RA: I started thinking about that me that light is the best material to no legal responsibility for any such and 1718. will bring cognitive science, ruled by Sunni Muslims of the Sidi question around 2012, when I do this as it can hold data, information published. In 1705 the Jesuits had been given contemplative practice, and dynasty who were of Abyssinian received my second Master’s degree knowledge, information and 11 Painted havelis are a feature of ISSN 1460-8537 the task of creating a map of Tianjin visitor-contributed art experiences to origin. The lot went on to be given in Media Arts studies at UCLA. machine consciousness, and I could region, an area of intense flooding, the heart of the Rubin, as well as act the Outstanding Indian & Islamic the Shekhawati region, Rajasthan I asked myself whether data could paint with this. Basically, the and the region around Beijing in as the new home for School and Art Award during the Asian Art in become a pigment? I know that question is whether data paintings, 1707. Satisfactory results of these Family Programs. London event in November. 12 From the Archives: The World of presently, all the machines or AI paintings, are so different from WAH TC initial projects piqued the emperor’s The Mandala Lab draws on the Kubilai Khan, held at The surrounding us are based on data, the original art experience based on videos of interest to see the Great Wall and symbolism of a Tibetan Buddhist NAMN JU PAIK PRIZE Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is true for the systems we are canvas paintings from early Machine further areas mapped. This led to mandala, which also serves as This year’s prize has been awarded to in 2010 using, for social media, or for our centuries? For example, in order to Hallucinations aaa the survey of the vast areas of the conceptual inspiration. By the Mumbai-based collaborative 13 Our round-up of the best books cars: data is everywhere. As a result, complete data paintings, I can use empire including all the Chinese referencing Buddhist wisdoms studio CAMP. Founded in 2007 by published in 2020 the machines are basically learning data based on wind, temperature, provinces and parts of Tartary. The embedded in the art in the Rubin’s artists Shaina Anand, Ashok 21 Treasures of Gold & Jade who we are. They know what we humidity or rain, and can turn this Jesuits were not allowed into Tibet, collection along with psychological Sukumaran, and Sanjay Bhangar, in California; and Rembrandt’s want to eat, what we want to say, weather information into an artwork. asianart Korea and Eastern Turkistan, and findings, the Mandala Lab aims to CAMP connects and interacts with Orient in Basel where we want to go, what we want Similarly, when I say AI-data Machine here they used maps constructed by offer tools and new perspectives for independent art and media groups to 22 Revealing Krishna in Cleveland, to watch and what we want to hear. painting, we can train an AI with Hallucination newspaper Chinese officials. coping with the day-to-day produce short- and long-term Indian Perspectives in Zurich. We have become predictable. But every single photo ever taken on (2019), The map covers 15 Chinese challenges, anxieties, and emotional projects such as film, video, Ali Balisadr in Connecticut; generally speaking, artists are also Mars, or on the International Space the artist’s first archive provinces, Korea, Great Tartary and burdens brought about by personal electronic media, and public art. Mari Katayama in Paris; and inspired by what happens in their Station (ISS), or of the cities of New large-scale Tibet. The text on the map is in and societal complexities – all The group received an award of Haegue Yang in Cornwall own living environment. That led me York, Stockholm, Berlin, and Seoul. exhibition in Download and read our unique Chinese and Manchu script. heightened by the global Covid-19 US$ 43,630 with a solo show at the 23 Islamic Arts Diary to ask myself how I could work with What I learned over time is that New York archive of features and reviews Additionally, the manuscript pandemic. centre in Seoul in 2021. machine consciousness? If there is collective memory can also become a © Refik Anadol asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 4 People People 5

collecting every existing painting pioneer for AI-data sculptures and ever created during the Renaissance, paintings. Lu Yang as ‘Doku’, a reincarnation every single sculpture, every single of herself that includes her definition AAN: Among your projects, would you L u Yang of beauty. As she appeared in the architecture, and every single book also lend your knowledge to make music video for the British pop-group and text written between 1300 and by Michael Young 1600, letting AI learn from them. people more aware to defend great ‘The 1975’. Doku is Lu Yang, Then, we let the machine causes? but she is here seen as a nullo, ‘hallucinate’ the Renaissance, which RA: Absolutely. For now, I primarily a neutral gender character without is why I called it Renaissance Dreams. focus on nature, because it is the most any sexual characteristics. We are watching AI remembering important topic of humanity. In my u Yang is a 38 year old Inspired by Eastern deities, those paintings in a unique way, as opinion, if you do not have nature, multi-media artist based in Japanese animé and no end of pop they are in flux, touching each you do not have a future. If you do LShanghai, who is known sub-cultures, the videos flit in equal other, featuring faces, pigments, not protect our nature we will mostly for her startling video works measure between dead-pan violence architecture and even literature. AI is eventually only be able to appreciate that utilise the visual lingua franca of and understated humour while imagining it is in the Renaissance. It and watch it through the lens of AI, the gaming generation to explore the negotiating the precarious boundary is an immersive piece where you are or remember it from photographs. universal themes of death, mortality, between life and death. They are surrounded by a transforming This is also one of the messages I and consciousness mediated by her often violent, always irreverent, and architecture allowing to increase the want to convey through my projects: passion for neuroscience, Hindu disturbingly controversial. You space. Ultimately, the architecture if you enjoy this, go and find the real, polytheism, and technology. The fast might see dead frogs being animated can dream about the Renaissance. go and touch the grass, and enjoy life. paced and vividly colourful videos are by electrical stimulation or skulls What I am showing is just AI and populated by a digitally created pierced by transcranial needles or AAN: You are opening a project in these are its limitations. It is a very motley crew, who maraud and dance cancer cells displaying assumed Australia this month. What is it about? good simulation, but it is not real. their way through dystopian ‘cute’ personas. Lu’s world is a RA: The new project is for the NGV Real nature is right there and you landscapes to the sound of booming curious and gruesome one. But you Triennial (opening 19 December) at need to protect it. techno music. Into this mash-up, know what you are getting with Lu’s Quantum Memories: Nature contact sheet (2020) © Refik Anadol the National Gallery of Victoria in Lu casts herself as a gender neutral work and – ultimately – you either Melbourne and is called Quantum AAN: Would you consider addressing avatar, spinning in a frenzied stupor, love it or hate it. Memories. It is a very challenging the problem of endangered species, through sci-fi worlds. I interviewed Lu several months project, as we are training our AI for example? ago, at her studio/home 15 minutes with more than 200 million images RA: I am already using the sound of by taxi east of central Shanghai. We are all of nature. Imagine every landscape, endangered species. For the project I had been told by her gallerist that sky, ocean, lake, flower, mountain, Quantum Memories for the National she no longer liked giving interviews social creatures, landscape, island, all the places in the Gallery of Victoria that opens in and that she would resist having her world where nature is represented. December, I am using their sound, photograph taken. Also that she no None of my work is gender specific recently her high-energy computer human consciousness – interests that who love Based on that, we are training our simulating the bird songs and many longer thought of herself as an artist. and all is available freely on (the file environments have featured in have captivated her since art school. AI to let the machine dream and others amazing data that we are On her website, and in printed sharing platforms) Vimeo and exhibitions in Paris and Berlin, as Lu’s studio is also her home, a to connect and remember in a quantum state. To visualising. material, she had taken to referring YouTube. I am just a creator,’ she well as on the advertising screens 1960s duplex apartment at the top of me, Quantum mechanics and to herself in some text by the explained. that glare over the iconic Shibuya a two-storey block that she shares share AAN: So far, have you been able to quantum competition are the most pronoun ‘he’. There seems not to be She may prefer to be called a Crossing in Tokyo. But far from with her pug, Biabia. ‘It was my important areas of science after AI. create all the projects you envisioned? a statement of a definite preference. creator, but what she has created, being designed simply to dazzle and ambition from very early on to have They will facilitate a huge leap for RA: I am very inspired by the idea of However, this is a device that can since leaving art school in 2010, is entertain youth sub-cultures with a pug in my life,’ she said. Its humanity. If you understand what inventing the library of the future. establish and maintain the the work of an extraordinary attention spans that flit rapidly from wrinkly, short-muzzled face had quantum mechanics is, and if you I think libraries are the most anonymity she craves, an anonymity contemporary artist who has one image to the next, they are often appeared in her work, as well apply it to a quantum competition, important places where we learn what Lu Yang with President Macron predicated on her name that is mastered the technical wizardry of constructed around Lu’s multi- as being a feature at her exhibition become better humans? That is things can change very quickly. It is real, where information becomes November 2019, when he was in gender neutral. Whether she is male the internet and, in doing so, has layered and profound interest in openings where it would be dressed basically my ‘mission’, as we have to may initially take some time, but we knowledge. I do not think I have Shanghai to open the Centre Pompidou or female had no relevance to her gained an international reputation. science and ancient Asian to match the occasion. explain to humanity what is actually are working on it. We are starting a created my best project as of yet, and outpost in West Bund cultural district. work she later said. ‘I do not want Her videos have been seen in polytheism. There is a restless Lu and I met on the main going on. new era and I am collaborating with I am still working on designing the Photo courtesy of Lu Yang/Instagram people to know what I look like. locations around the globe. Just ongoing search for the root of Continued on page 6 a Google team who is behind the library of the future as I see in my AAN: Your latest project is about art quantum competition. It is incredibly mind. 34 Getty Lacquer history and on view at MEET, the digital inspiring. A very powerful culture centre, in Milan. Sadly is imagination and a very powerful AAN: How would you envision it? temporarily shut due to Covid-19 (it is computation can actually change the RA: As you know, my works are also scheduled to run until 10 January world in a good way. about architecture and in my projects 2021). Can you describe Renaissance you can see special designs, three- AI-data painting © Refik Anadol Dreams to us? AAN: Commercially, is there a market dimensional designs, and immersive REACH YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE RA: A year ago, I received The for this type of art? rooms. I am dreaming an immersive about machines, competition, data, memories especially our memories Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime RA: Right now, my current works are room, one that is built by light, but does social media, and we are becoming – constitute our most important data. Achievement Award for New Media already in public collections such as not actually have any physical books. It WITH ASIAN ART NEWSPAPER part of something that is bigger than If there is no memory, there is no ‘us’. and Installation Art at the Florence the National Gallery of Victoria in could be a room like Arcade Dreaming, us. We are turning into a small thing If there is no memory, there is no Biennale. I was very honoured and Melbourne and the ZKM in for example, taking that project to a as we are no longer the centre. I am consciousness. Therefore, memory is deeply touched as at the age of 33, Karlsruhe. Over the past few years, next level, with a room that holds every Asian Art Newspaper has evolved its advertising choices to keep up to date with the trying to understand that, and turn everything, but in a world where AI I received a lifetime award. In cities have also acquired pieces, such single information in the world. It is a this into an experience, regardless of can learn, how can we use AI to conjunction with the prize, I learned as Los Angeles, Boston, New York very ambitious project, but I think that advances in online opportunities, as well as continuing to support the print edition. what the data is about. remember better? Technically, that this award was given by the and San Francisco that all have my ultimately, we can do it. I believe we can remember better Medici family, a very important artwork in their city’s collections. In AAN: When you say you are ‘trying to allowing us to also learn better, to family since the Italian Renaissance. addition, there are private collectors AAN: Do you feel people are ready to Advertisers will be able understand what it means to be a dream better, and ultimately we can The Renaissance changed the art who have AI-data paintings, embrace AI art? to customise and human today’, what conclusions have imagine better. So eventually, I think world with the liberation of ideas, the enjoying them in their homes. AI art RA: When I talk to people saying that choose unique links you reached? by using AI we can take ourselves increase of architecture, sculpture, is accepted by collectors who work in I am using data as a pigment and they would like readers RA: I think what I currently into a new level of humanity. How painting, and literature, all very the tech industry, who understand painting with a thinking brush, they e Guardian e Guardian DailyDaily Telegraph Telegraph TimeTime Out Out CLICK HERE CLICK HERE CLICK HERE CLICK HERE to see and experience. understand is on a very small scale, do we go about that? I believe art is important to the future and the medium and who are predicting need to realise that it is not science to see more images to visit our to see more to watch a because it is a journey to which I one way of achieving that. Let us not development of art the future. They have already fiction, but that it is a reality. home page images video cannot yet know the answer. But I remain stuck in ramifications, or in While in Florence, I visited the acquired pieces for their collections. Sometimes, it seems to me that the CLICK HERE to see more am aware of the fact that we are all the negativity of the things that do great museums, reading a lot about art world is divided in two: there is a images Shaikh Zain ud-Din, Black-Hooded Oriole and Insect on Jackfruit Stump (detail), Calcutta, 1778, Stump on Jackfruit and Insect Oriole Black-Hooded ud-Din, Zain Shaikh watercolour. Gift of Elizabeth and Willard Clark, Minneapolis Institute of Art Institute Minneapolis Clark, Willard and of Elizabeth Gift watercolour. 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Exorcism (2018) takes it an explained. Yang sat opposite not only hree distinct Asian cultural imaginative step further and begins Macron, but internationally identities are expressed with a pseudo-informational acclaimed Chinese actor, Gong Li, Tthrough ornament in this 1 sequence featuring a doctor who along with the Shanghai-based exhibition organised to honour the demonstrates the process’s superstar artist Zhang Huan. Lu 40th anniversary of the San Antonio applications on a man. Eventually, admitted she was a little star struck. Museum of Art (SAMA), coming up the same procedure is used to cure Lu has travelled widely – less so in in 2021. Long-time supporters the patient from demonic possession. the now Covid-19 infected world - Elizabeth and Robert Lende have The work thus toys with the idea that and exhibited in countries as far promised the museum their collection physical changes can also alter the flung as, Denmark, United of silver jewellery forms one of the 2 3 state of a person’s spirit. This leads to Kingdom, US and Japan and was themes of the show. For many years, another complex set of questions: included in the China Pavilion at the the Lendes have assembled their where is consciousness located—in 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with a collection from diverse cultures in the the brain? Soul? Body? If our video/installation Moving Gods Middle East, Asia, North Africa, and consciousness can be manipulated, is (2015), where men are cast as the Americas. Part of their collection, what we understand to be reality a Buddhist deities walking solemnly jewellery from the Turkmen people of result of the exploitation of our through computer-manipulated Central Asia and the Miao people of consciousness? In Lu’s animated temple scenes and urban landscapes southwestern China, is now the focus Delusional Mandala (2016) there are that eventually form what is revealed of an exhibition, alongside jewellery questions but no answers, though the to be a mandala – a part of the artist’s from the Hill Tribes of the work, featuring the artist’s avatar ongoing iconoclastic meditation on neighbouring areas of Myanmar, undergoing a series of neuroscientific the origin and nature of Thailand, and Laos. tests, was driven by these consciousness. Turkmen, Miao, and Hill Tribe conundrums. Recently (end of 2019 through peoples were all migratory. For Delusional Mandala also brought January 2020) her animated work centuries, they were subjugated by to the fore the other major was on show in Germany, where she other dominating ethnic groups and conundrum in Lu’s work. The was part of an exhibition, New Media were pushed to the most inaccessible simulacrum of Lu’s body is neither Art from China, at the Staatliche and marginal areas. The exhibition female nor male, thereby conferring Museen zu Berlin with her mentor provides an opportunity to explore on her the online anonymity she Zhang Peili and artist Cao Fei. Her the heritage jewellery treasured for 4 craves. ‘A lot of my work is not work was immensely popular, a centuries by these ethnic groups. General view of Lu Yang’s studio showing the area where she works gender-based, so a lot of people do three-dimensional video Uterus Man Silver was valued in these cultures as not know that I am female,’ she (2013) featuring a genderless an auspicious material capable of tree-lined road outside. Lu was Art in Hangzhou, where her stated. ‘People who meet me, or superhero who skateboards on a protecting the wearer. The fine gregarious and welcoming, and wore professor and mentor had been follow me on the internet, do not winged sanitary pad and uses a baby craftsmanship may belie the hardship a dark track suit – rather than the Zhang Peili – a new-media pioneer know who I am,’ she continued. attached to an umbilical cord as a endured by the Turkmen, the Miao, vividly colourful punk Cosplay- in China (see Asian Art Newspaper Since her student Notwithstanding such mace, locked in a battle to save an and the Hill Tribes. Today, under inspired clothes that have become June 2020). Lu graduated in 2007 eccentricities, Lu’s life is, it seems, imagined future universe. Uterus the spread of urbanisation and her signature look. Her hair had with a Bachelor of Fine Art, followed days, Lu has relatively ordinary. ‘I hardly go out Man was originally inspired by commercialisation of the living been dyed a startling, bluey-purple. by a Master of Fine Art anywhere. I live on the internet,’ she Japanese artist Mao Sugiyama, environment, they face great Access to the studio was at the back in 2010 and is currently studying for had an ongoing said. Lunch, often dinner, would be whose hatred of gender labels led challenges to maintaining their of the block, reached along a narrow her doctorate degree in robotics in interest in noodles at a local restaurant, with him to have his own genitals cultural identities alley where the few plants that grew Hangzhou, again supervised by Peili. Biabia in attendance. surgically removed, cooked and The term ‘Turkmen’ refers to 6 were caked with Shanghai’s To one side of Lu’s computer desk But there are exceptions. Even served to paying guests. Later several ethnic groups living in the ubiquitous grey dust. There was no lift there was an easel, but no paintings. bio-art though courting anonymity, Lu’s Sugiyama had his nipples surgically vast steppe land stretching from the and we climbed several flights of stairs Those had left the studio for her and neuroscience international reputation has attracted removed to become a nullo, the term Caspian Sea to the west and the that reminded me of a slightly grubby exhibition at Shanghai’s Bank a certain cachet. Last year she met used to describe genital nullification. Chinese border to the east. The Miao Parisian stairwell. Society Gallery. Entitled Debut, the and lunched with President Macron, Lu, who has corresponded at area is just one of some 15 ethnic The apartment had been tastefully show presented brightly hued who was in Shanghai to open the length with Mao Sugiyama, has groups living in the remote and renovated and had polished canvases with the figures inspired by new outpost of the Centre Pompidou digitally embraced the idea of the mountainous southwest region of floorboards, ceramic floor tiles and traditional Chinese folktales, named the Centre Pompidou x West nullo in a music video commissioned China. In the exhibition, the sculpted plaster ceilings, and it was Greco-Roman divinities, and Bund Museum project. Twenty by the British rock band ‘The 1975’ jewellery is displayed in broad bathed in light that flooded in wide-eyed manga characters. The Shanghai born artists and actors that responded to a track from their categories, such as headdresses, 5 through doors that opened onto a figures are seen in acts of torture were invited, Lu included. ‘I wanted recent album, Notes on a Conditional earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, balcony that ran the length of the and murder alongside grinning, to take an (Instagram) photo with Form. In the video, Lu appeared with these common accoutrements are apartment. In the main room, faces, some of which are based on him. That is the reason I went,’ she her now familiar gender-neutral body shared by both the Turkmen and upstairs, were several glass-fronted the artist’s own likeness. The with upper limbs and torso Miao people. While headdresses, 1 Pair of earrings, Miao, China, first half of the 20th century, silver, each 4.8 cm, promised gift from Elizabeth and Robert Lende 1940s cabinets that contained Yang’s paintings possessed the same emblazoned with iridescent neon earrings, necklaces, and bracelets are 2 Dorsal ornament, Teke tribe, Turkmenistan, late 19th to early 20th century, silver gilt inlaid with carnelian, 16 × 14.5 cm, inspirational collection of toys, confronting imagery as Lu’s videos patterns, dancing in a digitally created shared by the Turkmen, the Miao, promised gift from Elizabeth and Robert Lende models, and votive figurines, with columns of spurting blood, world. Lu has named the character and the Hill Tribes, other objects are 3 Necklace, Miao, China, 20th century, silver, 49 × 28.5 cm, promised gift from Elizabeth and Robert Lende inflatable faces from the green frog decapitations, and grimacing faces, ‘Doku’ and said it reflected her unique to each group. In particular, 4 Neck ring, Hmong, Yao, or Lahu tribe, Thailand, Myanmar, or Laos, first half of the 20th century, silver, 20.4 cm, promised gift fromE lizabeth and Robert Lende Keroro to Pikachu and Godzilla, graphically depicted in a demonic personal sense of beauty. amulet bags, braid adornments, and 5 Eame (headdress), Teke tribe, Turkmenistan, late 19th to early 20th century, silver and carnelian, length 58 cm, promised gift from Elizabeth and Robert Lende alongside various bric-à-brac. They Danse Macabre. The premise of the ‘I consider Doku as my digital temple pendants are specific to 6 Bracelet, Yao tribe, Thailand, first half of the 20th century, silver, 8.4 cm, promised gift from Elizabeth and Robert Lende formed a visually compelling and paintings was to blur the binary of reincarnation,’ she said. A recent Turkmen people, and neck rings, All Photos: Seale Studios entertaining, three-dimensional good and evil. collaboration with the Chinese sport combs, and back hooks are found bricolage reflecting the hybridised Since her student days, Lu has fashion brand Li-Ning has seen Doku more actively among the Miao and figures and the worlds that Lu had an ongoing interest in bio-art reappear in the brand’s promotional the Hill Tribes. renders in her practice. However, and neuroscience and even now video at September 2020 Paris Presented across three distinct there was nothing chaotic about this voraciously reads science books. For Fashion Week as a dramatic backdrop sections dedicated to each culture, mélange, each piece had been her video Revived Zombie Frogs to the strutting models and it is the the exhibition can show the visual carefully positioned on the shelves. Underwater Ballet (2016), which she video for this collaboration that can range of these objects, capturing Turkmen and Miao Lu’s work area, in the space initiated in 2009, she used electricity also be seen looming over Tokyo’s important contrasts and similarities. adjoining the living room, had more to stimulate the muscles of dead Shibuya Crossing. For example, Turkmen jewellery is animé paraphernalia and bookcases frogs. ‘You see [the frogs] move and Moving Gods (2015), video installation, which was included in the China Pavilion With such a heavy digital often adorned with abstract and packed with publications, as well as you wonder if it is still alive or dead,’ at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), where men are cast as Buddhist deities workload Lu has temporarily set geometric forms and perforations. three over-sized desks on which sat a Lu said. On the bottom left corner walking solemnly through computer-manipulated temple scenes and urban aside her painting project, Lu said The Miao and Hill Tribes’ silver host of screens and keyboards. It was of the video a pair of gloved hands landscapes that form what is eventually revealed to be a mandala – a part of recently by phone from Shanghai. pieces, on the other hand, usually Lu Yang’s iconoclastic meditation on the origins and nature of consciousness Jewellery here that, in early 2019, Lu began to manipulate the electric signals via a ‘But I hope I can continue (painting) display an array of flora and fauna spend 14-hour days constructing a MIDI controller. This pair of hands each year. It is really more like a motifs derived from local beliefs. new, combat-based computer game, brings to the fore one of Lu’s core vacation,’ she said somewhat Where Miao and Hill Tribe works The Great Adventure of the Material concerns: what are the limitations of wistfully. do embrace geometry in their designs, enhanced by studded carnelians. the exhibition explores their granulation, among others. Most the most inaccessible and marginal World, which pits a cast of human control on life and death? In As Lu escorted me back to the the approach tends to be far more Miao silver jewellery, however, functions, materials, techniques, and importantly, Turkmen, Miao, and areas. As a result, their artistry and superheroes from her past works subsequent works, Lu furthered this road outside the studio, she minimalistic than seen in Turkmen usually displays an array of flora and rich symbolism. Similarities in these Hill Tribe jewellery bears layers of craftsmanship have not been as well against a cult of demons scattered question, probing how humans have defensively reiterated her need for pieces. Approximately 120 pieces fauna motifs derived from local areas frequently outweigh differences. hidden meanings, symbolising studied as that of other cultures, through ancient temples, hyper- attempted to overwrite the anonymity inside the internet. ‘If explore the aesthetic tastes and beliefs. The Miao also have their This suggests a social and cultural happiness, progeny, and feminine especially in the Western world. The urban cities, and the galaxy. After physiological bounds of their control people like your work they do not cultural influences of the Turkmen own creation myth. As they have no dimension shared by the jewellery virtues. The exhibition looks at these exhibition offers an opportunity to almost a year of this gruelling through technological means. really care who you are.’ Or where and Miao peoples. official written history, oral traditions from these two distinct cultures. important aspects in detail to experience the technical mastery, schedule, however, she decided to Transcranial Magnetic you are, for that matter, I thought. The Turkmen tribes jewellery is are highly important and the stories Crafted mostly for women, Turkmen, understand why the jewellery holds diversity of approaches, and beauty shift her mode of working and Stimulation, which utilises electric With Covid-19 forcing much of the adorned with abstract and geometric and legends related to their tribe can Miao, and Hill Tribe jewellery more power and meaning than mere inherent to these objects and to gain turned instead to painting. ‘I needed currents to manipulate brainwaves world into physical isolation and forms and open-work and be seen preserved in their jewellery provides a great deal of information adornment. newfound understanding of their to find a way to relax. I thought, to diagnose the connections between quarantine, the idea of a life lived perforations, with forms composed designs. Miao pieces also embraces about the wearer, including family Shawn Yuan, SAMA’s Associate significance to Turkmen, Miao, and maybe I can paint something,’ she the brain and the body’s muscles, is a productively through the internet of triangles, squares, rhomboids, and geometric forms and shapes, but in a wealth, age, and marital status. Silver Curator of Asian Art and the Hill Tribe cultures’. told me. It was not such a far- procedure frequently used with rather than one predicated on human discs, with designs incised or applied. much more minimalistic style, such was valued in these cultures as an exhibition curator, explained, ‘For • Until 3 January, 2021, fetched idea. patients suffering from strokes, contact, no longer seems at all Design include vegetal, zoomorphic, as the necklace designed to include a auspicious material capable of centuries, the ethnic groups Exquisite Adornment: Lu was, in fact, no stranger to the multiple sclerosis, and neural far-fetched. Lu sprinted off along the tree-of-life motifs, rams’ heads, as series of concentric silver rings and protecting the wearer, and represented by works in the Elizabeth Turkmen and Miao Jewellery medium. Her first degree was from diseases, as well as those with Uterus Man (2013), featuring an animated superhero modelled after the female main drag shouting over her shoulder well as floral designs (common devoid of any surface decoration. silversmiths employed surprisingly and Robert Lende collection and our from the Elizabeth and Robert Lende the painting department of the anxiety and depression. Lu’s video reproductive system questioning the gender stereotypes often found in video as she went, that she was getting flowers depicted are tulips). The Beyond the apparent visual common craftsmanship vocabularies, exhibition were subjugated by other Collection, San Antonio Museum of prestigious China Academy of Fine Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation games and popular culture noodles for lunch. contrast of silver and parcel gilding is differences between the jewellery, including repoussé, filigree, and dominating peoples and pushed to Art, Texas, samuseum.org asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 8 Museums Exhibitions 9

Gaitonde, KG Subramanian, Atul by Janet Baker Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Mithu Sen and Riyas Komu. The most extensive is the ince 1949 in China, scientifically Photography Collection, considered controlled archaeological one of the finest in the country, Sinvestigations have resulted in which spans the history of the art to the discovery of many ancient tombs, Seeking Immortality the present day, and includes works offering a clearer understanding of by 19th- century by photographers burial practices and the lives of people such as Samuel Bourne, John Burke, throughout history. The vast majority of Francis Frith, William Johnson, objects unearthed from such tombs are Colin Roderick Murray, John three-dimensional clay sculptures, E ANCI NT ARTEFACTS Edward Saché, Charles Shepherd, which replicate humans, animals, and E Taurines and Raja Deen Dayal; to everyday objects for the use of the 20th-century prints by significant deceased in the afterlife. For about photographers, such as Henri 1,000 years, these funerary sculptures Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, were made, and they provide a wealth Martine Franck, Raghu Rai and of information about the lives, hopes, TS Satyan. Additionally, the dreams, possessions, and pursuits of a inclusion of contemporary Indian civilisation that flourished from the 2nd photographers, such as Dayanita century BC to the 9th century. Armies Singh, Vivek Vilasini and Gauri Gill, of soldiers, sumptuous vehicles, make this a comprehensive collection beautifully dressed court ladies, that is a valuable source for entertainers, foreigners, and super- Lama’s lenses case, 17th /18th century, gilt bronze inlaid with corals, Tibet, 9.53 x 5.08 x 1.9 cm, Kipper Collection researchers and visitors to the natural beings are all portrayed in rich Man’s gau, silver with inlaid turquoises, Derge, Kham province, Tibet, 17.78 x 7.91 x 20.96 cm, Kipper Collection museum alike. detail. Earring depicting Vishnu, Malla period (1200-1768), circa 17th century, gold inlaid with glass, Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, 3.17 x 1.91 x 3.8, Kipper Collection The Folk and Tribal Art section of The viewer is reminded that burials the museum displays a wide range of for rulers of Chinese society in ancient India’s regional communal artistic times originally included the practices. The showcase includes interment of live servants, wives, relatively under-appreciated livestock, and horses. A set of chariot traditions such as patua scrolls from ornaments survived the centuries in a Bengal, shadow puppets from tomb that had included a wooden southern India, Bhuta idols from chariot and horses, as evidenced by BEngaluru Karnataka, and religious terracotta the skeletal equine remains found artefacts from Tamil Nadu. It also nearby. These beautiful abstract Set of officials and tomb guardians, Tang dynasty, painted earthenware. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, gift of Carolyn Refsnes Kniazzeh. Photo: Ken Howie comprises works by some of India’s patterns would have originally added New Museum of Art and Photography best-known contemporary artists, a lavish and shiny embellishment to such as Jangarh Singh Shyam, Warli the wooden chariot that no longer paintings by Jivya Soma Mashe, and survives. A pair of clay equestrian Mithila paintings by Baua Devi. figures provides evidence of the Many tombs he new Museum of Art and major private art museum and is and is custodian to a growing highlights are manuscript paintings, MAP’s textiles, craft and design popularity and prestige of horses Photography (MAP) in located in Bengaluru, the capital of collection of over 18,000 works of art, including masterpieces from the collection includes important during the 1st through 2nd centuries. have been TBengaluru (formerly Karnataka state. The museum’s predominantly from South Asia and Mughal, Jain, Rajput and Pahari examples of textile traditions of the From the same era were found Bangalore) is set to receive a mission is to take art and culture to dating from the 10th century to the school traditions; Chola bronzes; subcontinent, such as patolas, chintz beautifully decorated vessels, such as a discovered in collection of 464 objects from the the heart of the community by present. It is one of the most diverse temple art from Southern India; as hangings, kalamkaris, pahari rumaals, cocoon-shaped jar with swirling Barbara Kipper Collection in New making the museum accessible to and important collections in India. A well as Mysore and Tanjore paintings. phulkaris and kanthas, in addition to patterns that evoke the clouds and China from the York. Work on the new museum, due diverse audiences. It will achieve this special highlight is its seminal The collection also comprises art works representative of many other energy of heaven, part of the Daoist to open in December 2020, is now by exhibiting, interpreting and collection of historical and works that are generally considered techniques and styles. It is also home beliefs regarding the cosmos. Painted 20th century scheduled for 2021, due to coronavirus preserving India’s rich artistic contemporary photography and beyond the canonical framework of to a variety of decorative arts such as but not glazed, these designs have onwards restrictions. This gift from the Kipper heritage in a wide-ranging popular culture, which is rare for an Indian art history, such as pichhavai furniture, design, and jewellery that faded but have not disappeared after Collection follows promised gifts to programme of events, exhibitions, Indian museum. MAP’s collection paintings (large Hindu devotional demonstrate the extraordinary nearly two millennia underground. the Art Institute of Chicago, The and performances. The five-storey can be categorised into six key genres: paintings normally on cloth) and technical expertise of Indian artisans Some ancient clay artefacts interred Metropolitan Museum in New York, building will include art galleries, an Pre-Modern Art, Modern & paithan paintings (story-telling working in these fields. with the deceased imitated prestigious and the Asian Art Museum in San auditorium, an art and research Contemporary, Photography, Folk paintings often used by itinerant For the last three years, the possessions that were used in everyday Francisco. The collection includes library, an education centre, a & Tribal, Popular Culture, and bards that are typical of the Andhra museum has been organising a life and were made of more precious indicating their differing status. over 1,300 objects dating from the specialised research and conservation Textiles, Craft & Design. Pradesh/Karnataka border area), variety of education and outreach materials such as bronze. An example Closer examination reveals that one 7th century to the 1950s, collected facility, as well as a cafe. The museum MAP Director, Kamini Sawhney, encouraging a broader definition of programmes in the local community, of a clay bell imitates actual examples of the figures is Chinese, but the other from countries bordering the Silk already has a strong online presence, said of the promised gift, ‘These ‘Indian Art’ and serving to link whilst the construction of the of bronze musical bells found in very appears to be non-Chinese. Such men Road, including a large number of unique pieces of jewellery in the historical art to contemporary museum has been in progress. lavish tombs from the early centuries would have been meant to take care of gau (an amulet or portable shrines, Kipper Collection are significant practice. Despite the postponement of the BC. Other artefacts made of bronze the business needs of the deceased. Bactrian camel and groom, Tang dynasty, white pottery with pigment traces. used for protection on perilous because they represent cultures that, The Modern and Contemporary opening of the physical museum, were round or geometrically shaped Security and protection would have Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Asian Arts Council purchase with funds journeys and often gifted to even at the time of collecting them, Art showcase offers a wide cross- MAP has been busy. It will officially disks called mirrors, which usually been provided by the pair of figures provided by Susan and Eliot Black monasteries) its silhouette consciously MAP is South were fast disappearing due to social, section of the most significant trends launch digitally on 5 December. had one side that was reflective and wearing military garb, including evokes the shape of a single lotus economic, and political changes. and movements in Pre- and Post- embarking on the challenges of the one side that was decorative, with Seated Court Lady, Tang dynasty. armour characteristic of the Tang encounter malevolent spirits while those in China that included vessels petal, which is a symbol of purity. It is India’s first MAP is honoured not only to receive Independence Indian Art. Among new environment and creating an motifs symbolising the concepts of Three-color glazed pottery. dynasty (618-907). Much of our occupying the tomb or travelling to for containing food or wine and formed as a box so the contents can this important gift, but to have the internationally respected artists opportunity to reach global heaven and earth or that represented Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, understanding of military wear, the next world. Chinese religion prior bronze mirrors. The influence of be individually created and re-created. major private Barbara Kipper join our group of represented in MAP’s wide-ranging audiences. To mark its launch, MAP the rich luxuries of this world such as Gift of Dr. Victoria Chan-Palay, weapons, and practices of ancient to the arrival of Buddhism, a date Chinese Confucian social and Also in the collection are women’s Founding Circle members through collection are Jamini Roy, Bhupen will present a week-long virtual grapes and lions, exotica from beyond New York. Photo by Ken Howie China can be gleaned from tomb which is not clearly fixed, was based ancestral beliefs and practices were a ornaments, including necklaces, art museum her generous donation to the Khakhar, Jyoti Bhatt, Mrinalini programme of events Art (is) Life and China’s borders. figures, the most stunning example of on the Confucian concepts of filial cornerstone of Korean social structure earrings and headdresses, plus a museum in addition to the gift of the Mukherjee, Ravinder Reddy, Ravi inaugurate their ‘Museums without One can understand the changes in in love with such a woman. Eventually, which is the discovery of the piety and reverence for one’s ancestors, for at least two millennia. However, number of ritualistic items. jewellery’. Varma, Rabindranath Tagore, Borders’ initiative with performances fashions for women, for example, by she drove him to distraction, and the ‘terracotta army’ of The First Emperor as well as the Daoist beliefs in a early pottery and tomb artefacts from As a young woman, Barbara The Pre-Modern Art collection Abanindranath Tagore, Benode in music, dance, poetry and comparing two figures in the empire was beset by rebellion. of China, Qin Shihuang Di, at cosmic world of unseen forces that Japan indicate that burial practices Kipper was fascinated by the poetry holds some of the most exemplary Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baij, technology, by leading professionals, collection of Phoenix Art Museum. The trade of goods and ideas along Lintong, just outside the ancient enervated this world and the heavens there likely differed, as evidenced in of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem works of Indian art. Among its MF Husain, J Swaminathan, VS including art historian Dr B N A seated figure of a court lady dressed the Silk Routes at this time is capital of Changan, today known beyond. both design and content of tomb sites. Kubla Khan (1797) and the Oriental Goswamy, filmmaker Nandita Das, in a floral patterned dress shows the evidenced by the inclusion of foreign as Xi’an. Korean artefacts in this exhibition The long tradition of Jomon pottery sets and costumes of the Paris-based and artist, Jitish Kallat. Each preference for young slender women peoples and the animals they brought The outermost figures in this set provide evidence for early and strong vessels and figures seem to indicate Ballet Russes, whose artistic director consequent day of the programme as the ideal of beauty, dressed in styles with them to China’s cosmopolitan clearly represent supernatural beings, influences from China in burial that interment of tomb goods was not created such ‘exotic’ ballets as will celebrate one of the six that likely came from west of China. capital regions. Camels led by Central as seen by the imaginative practices and goods. Tombs of similar widely practised. Jomon, or ‘rope- Scheherazade, Les Orientals, and Le departments of the museum’s In this example, we can see the daring Asian grooms were the ideal transport combination of human and animal or slightly later dates correlate with impressed’ pottery, dates back to the Dieu Bleu. Today, she recognises collection and be accompanied by a low cut and tightly fitted waist of her for the arduous journey across characteristics accented by prominent Neolithic era in Japan and was these as ‘Western Orientalist commissioned performance at 7pm gown, enhanced by her creative thousands of miles of harsh terrain horns, multiple wings, bared teeth, originally made as utilitarian cooking imaginings of the East, not grounded IST/1.30pm GMT. upswept hairstyle. Created in the 7th between places such as Persia and and fearsome expressions. The precise vessels for the living. Jomon figures of in scholarship of the region, and There is also a new addition to the century, she exemplified the kind of China. Figures of men with pointed meaning of such figures, which go by humans and horses were sometimes certainly not academically respected,’ Bengaluru cityscape – the façade of feminine ideals of beauty that would caps, full beards, and large noses several names in China, remains open placed on the outside perimeter of a but it was a fascination that grew MAP on Kasturba Road has been have been favoured for wives and depict the clearly non-Chinese people to discussion. They may have served tumulus mound in Japan. Thus, the with her first three-month trip to transformed into a large, colourful concubines for the upper-class men of who brought new forms of music, as protectors of the soul of the role of geography in ancient times was Asia in 1968. During 30 years of mural by local artists during the that time. The splashed ‘three-colour’ dance, and religious ideas such as deceased or to fend off evil spirits significant, as Korea’s and China’s collecting, with the help of her late construction of the museum, glaze of her dress includes touches of Buddhism to the courts of imperial from the environs of the tomb and its shared-continent proximity led to husband, David, she has assembled a brought to life by the local Aravani precious cobalt-blue pigment. In China in the 8th century. occupants. These fantastic creatures shared burial customs, while Japan’s diverse collection of personal Art Project and entitled The Story of contrast, a pair of figures dating from A spectacular set of six painted clay reflect some of the beliefs in ancient island location led to more distinctive artefacts that represented the Bangalore. The museum’s online a century later show voluptuously figures of large scale exhibit the many China about the afterlife and the practices outside of China’s cultural disappearing nomadic and tribal offerings including talks, collections, figured women wearing loosely fitting ways that the world of the living human soul’s journey from this world sphere. cultures of Central and South Asia, a blog, searchable database and a robes that draped across their curves. anticipated the needs of the high- to the next. Textual evidence is scant, • Janet Baker, PhD, is Curator of Asian including Tibetan objects and other children’s education area. The preference for full-figured women ranking aristocrats in the next world. but essentially, the Chinese belief Pair of painted terracotta ‘fat ladies’, Art at the Phoenix Art Museum regional jewellery, including in the 8th century is verified by a Included in this set are two system maintained that upon death, Tang dynasty (618-906). • Until 4 April, 2021, Seeking southwest China. • Museum of Art & Photography, legend about the favourite concubine bureaucratic officials wearing the the dual soul of the deceased required Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Immortality, at the Phoenix Art Museum, MAP will be South India’s first The Story of Bangalore mural outside the Museum of Art & Photography’s building in Bengaluru Bengaluru, map-india.org of a Tang-dynasty emperor, who fell same attire but different hats, likely appeasement lest they might gift of Drs. 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emi-arid, India’s Shekhawati region may Procession during the Saga Dawa (Triple Blessed) festival in Gangtok Sonly be a relatively short distance from touristy Jaipur, but it could be a million miles away given the differences. At the heart of the area is the city of Alsisar, located in north Rajasthan and home to many of the painted havelis of the region. Shekhawati literally means Land of Shekha, and is named after the legendary 15th-century chieftain Rao Interior of the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology founded in 1958 Shekha (1433-88). Over hundreds of years, the region was known for its location on the crucial trade route that connected Delhi and Sind (now in Pakistan) with the docks and harbours of the Arabian Sea and the Ganges Valley. Later, of course, the cities of Bombay and Gangtok Calcutta diverted the trans-Thar trade south and eastwards, but for by Cleo Roberts many years feudal Shekhawati found itself at a crucial juncture of this commerce. n a curious watercolour by Atul pillars that recede and frame an In the 19th century, the Dodiya, two men sit in front of immense fresco. This features four Shekhawati thakurs (noblemen) Ithe ‘National Art Center celestial guardians positioned to face flourished, earning great wealth Gangtok’. One is a colonial archetype the four directions of Mount Meru, from their trading with the with pursed lips and a stiff, tight collar. the sacred central world mountain British East India Company. The other is an Indian elite with a associated with Buddhist, Hindu Around this time the foreign more comfortable air, raising a wine and Jain cosmology. merchants forced some measures glass in expectation of a toast. They The museum inside is a low-lit An old palace gate in Gangtok, Sikkim’s capital of order into Shekhawati and The Painted Havelis of make a peculiar pair, but more trove of thangkas, statues, ritual feudalism turned to capitalism. mystifying is the Modernist building objects and artworks. The rare with swatches of fabric, animators might be a book launch, photographic The British utilised the abilities in the background. A geometric hunk collection includes a silver image of mocking up storyboards and graphic workshop or live performance that of the local merchants, or of steel and glass planted in Gangtok, the Bodisattva of Knowledge, designs laying out projects, there is a attracts a crowd. The varied Marwaris, fully in order to the capital of India’s smallest state Manjushri, an 11th-century, palm- palpable buzz about the opportunities programme of events often forges improve trade. The Marwaris Sikkim, looms as large as the leaf. Sanskrit manuscript and relics of being created. connections with local businesses and (originally from the Jodhpur mountain range behind it. In an area two Asokan missionaries. The Lagstal, a design studio and shop provides a platform for the area’s region), mainly settled in coastal known for its ecotourism, the Tibetan library on the first floor is set up by Chimi Ongmu Bhutia, is intellectual life and arts. Rachna’s areas and grew rich on trade and Sh ek h awat i gleaming institution is certainly lined, wall to wall, with wooden part of this new wave of socially commitment to cultural activity and taxes. With this newly found incongruous. View of Kanchendzonga from Gangtok cabinets filled with rows of ancient conscious cultural entrepreneurs. In fashioning itself as a ‘landmark’, along wealth, Shekhawati’s Marwari While Gangtok might be lacking manuscripts in Sanskrit, Chinese and reviving craft techniques that have with their excellent selection of books, merchants and landowning the National Art Center envisaged by shawls made by indigenous Lepcha Lepcha (a Himalayan language used been dormant, like corn husk has made the shop nationally Thakurs competed with one Dodiya, the city is home to a number communities, reams of handmade in Sikkim, India and parts of West weaving, she has developed a female renowned and recent recipient of the another to build grand, of arts institutions that reflect paper and delicately painted masks Bengal, Nepal and Bhutan). Wrapped collective of over 70 artisans making 2020 India Reading Olympiad flamboyantly decorated havelis, Sikkim’s past and preserve its majesty and dolls, there is also a training in bright silky fabric, alongside them elegant home decor and clothing. Bookshop of the Year Award. which still line the streets of the as an epicentre of Buddhist faith. The college. Here, students can study a are small hand-painted chests with With this model comes not only For cultural reasons alone, region’s dusty towns today. area has a turbulent political history. range of skills and crafts including soft spongey chairs, laid out pre- financial independence and business Gangtok deserves to be visited. Add The towns of Shekhawati Before its succession to India in 1975, wood carving and bamboo craft. In a emptive of the scroll’s unravelling. built on environmentally sustainable to this its natural beauty, vast glassy seamlessly blend the architectural Sikkim was an independent Buddhist city founded on Buddhist principles, Within this collection of over 60,000 materials but also an investment in lakes and the exalted peaks of styles of Rajput and Islamic kingdom lauded as a site of pilgrimage where religious motifs crop up in volumes is a translation of the original Sikkimese traditions. Kanchendzonga and it is all the more forms and the main characteristic since the 19th century. Shielded by doorways and are found painted on teachings of Lord Buddha and other Lagtal and La’s community ethos compelling. In a place where rich of the region is still its abundance the immense Great Himalaya range, external walls, thangka painting is a highlights such as the collected works and focus on local resources chimes visual traditions are being of lavishly painted havelis. They Kanchendzonga rises over 8586 popular choice of course. Over four of the Bhutanese saint and siddha of with Gangtok’s independent complemented by a burgeoning are typically formed of rooms metres (over 28,000 feet) from the years, students finesse the intricate the Nyingma school of Tibetan bookshop, Rachna Books. Found in creative scene, soon, the city might around a central courtyard, a bit eastern Himalayas, an area which is Buddhist iconography that is central Buddhism, Padma Lingpa, and the an unassuming two-storey building, well be in need of an arts centre. Just like a Moroccan riad, which thronged with monasteries and those to the detailed religious scrolls hagiography of Guru Rachna is a social hub. In amongst the do not expect Dodiya’s vision to be works well to counteract the (milkmaid) finds him dancing among the dhobi washermen. Main image: remained popular till World War Goenkas) have now been restored who revere the mythological produced in the region. Padmasambhava. bookshelves, gatherings take place. It the blueprint. harsh heat and provides next to her. Depictions of local Tragically, the story has a sad end, The courtyard I, until supplies dried up. Maroon and have opened to the public as importance of the mountain. Visual To visit the Namgyal Institute of The serenity felt in the library and separation for male and female folk lore also appear on the haveli Punu is kidnapped and Sassi dies of Le Prince was popular from 1820 to 1865, museums. culture was so inherent to Sikkim’s Tibetology (NIT) is to understand museum is characteristic of Gangtok. Weaving and dwellers. The elaboratewalls, such as Laila-Majnu and in search of him in the desert. Haveli in red and blue held sway between In Nawalgarh, Murarka identity and tied up with faith that the importance of these paintings. The city is tranquil. Yet while the basket craft in decoration of arches and frescoes, Heer–Ranjha. Shekhawati’s Before the 19th century, artists Fatehpur 1860 and 1910, and multi- Haveli, Bansidhar Bhagat Haveli, the final monarch, Chogyal (king) The institute, nestled in the southern visual cultures associated with Gangtok as well as the number of rooms murals have a recurrent theme of used natural colours such as coloured paintings using cheap Chokhani Haveli, Seksaria Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923- part of the city, up a winding hill Buddhism have a large presence, and courtyards, increased over a couple astride a camel which lamp-black, and red, green and From left: The European paints dominated the Haveli, Bhagat Haveli and 1982), in 1957, inaugurated the running through a lush forest of there is also a nascent design industry time in tandem with the wealth portrays one of Rajasthan’s most yellow ochres. Lime was a entrance to the years from 1900 to 1950s. Poddar Haveli are also important Technical Institute for Training and birch, oak and magnolia, is a world making its mark. In a number of of the merchant. popular romantic tales, Dhola– substitute for white and was used Dr Ramnath A Among the most vivacious sites to visit. In the past decade, Production of traditional arts and leading centre for Buddhist studios across the city, creative The painted murals can be Maru. Married off as children, for lightening other hues, while Podar Haveli collection of architectural many of these merchant houses crafts. A proponent of Sikkimese scholarship and an example of initiatives are building sustainable broadly put into 10 themes: Dhola returns as an adolescent to indigo (plant dye), ultramarine Museum, neighbourhoods in India, the have been preserved and have autonomy, the institute promoted the Sikkimese architecture at its best. enterprises based on local skills and purely decorative designs, scenes fetch his wife. En route, they (ground lapis lazuli), vermilion Nawalgarh; Shekhawati towns like Ramgarh, now been turned into heritage region’s unique character. Today, Conceived in the 1950s in response craft traditions. Behind a café found of daily life, religion, ragamala encounter bandits Umra–Sumra, (powdered mineral cinnabar), traditional Lachhmangarh, Fatehpur, hotels. Painted heritage hotels in following Namgyal’s forceful to China’s invasion of Tibet, the high on a verdant plain, is a modest (sets of paintings depicting a and like a true Rajput wife, Maru Verdigris (formed with acid on mural from Mandawa, Dhundlod and Churu the region include Alsisar Mahal, deposition, this vision has been Institute is the most significant wooden cabin, home to LA Design. range of musical melodies), local repels the attackers while Dhola copper), gold and silver were Shekhawati; all boast Shekhawati murals Piramal Haveli, Roop Niwas blurred. The institute now stands as custodian of Tibetan scholarship and Founded by Sonam Tashi Gyaltsen C lICK here folk mythology, historical events urges his camel onwards. Other reserved for prayer rooms and the Alsisar throughout the havelis, joharas Kothi, Ramgarh Fresco Hotel, the Government of Sikkim’s arts outside the country itself. The in 2016, La, meaning mountain pass To view over 300 or personalities, flora and fauna, paintings represent lesser-known bedrooms. Indian Yellow, made Mahal (wells), mandirs (Hindu place of Narain Niwas Castle, and Le Directorate of Handicrafts and NIT library holds one of the largest in Sikkimese, is an ambitious photographs of erotica, maps or places – and an folk tales, such as Binjo–Sorath. from gomutra, or urine collected worship), chhatris (dome-shaped Prince Haveli in Fatehpur, Handloom. collections of Tibetan works in the collaborative project which works Sikkim from the anomaly – the British and their Binjo mesmerises his young aunt from cows fed on mango leaves, pavilions) and forts. A number of restored by the French artist Visiting the directorate does more world outside Tibet and a museum of with craftspeople to produce 1960s and 70s, vehicles. Most chhatris (domes) Sorath by playing a veena (lute) was used, albeit rarely. In 1860, Shekhawati’s havelis, particularly Nadine Le Prince. than satiate a tourist’s souvenir Tibetan iconography and religious commercial products like bamboo donated by also include a rasamandala in the as she dances to his tunes. Sassi– German chemical pigments such in Nawalgarh (the hometown of • For more information, craving. Apart from a well-visited art. It has published the Bulletin of homeware and nettle woven textiles. Alice Kandell ceiling – a dancing circle in Punu recounts the legend of as a synthetic, laboratory-made, some highly successful business read Shekhawati: The Havelis of sales emporium housing shelves Tibetology since 1964. The entrance is LA’s studio teems with a range of to the Library which Krishna miraculously Punu, a prince who weds Sassi, ultramarine, chrome red and families of India such as the the Merchant Princes stacked with handwoven weave glorious riot of ornate beams and artists. In amongst pinboards filled of Congress replicates himself so each gopi an abandoned princess raised emerald green reached India and Birlas, the Mittals and the published by Marg in 2013 asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 12 From the Archives Books 13 The World of Khubilai Khan BOOS K 2020

fter the ground-breaking book Daily life in the Yuan court, and China Here smiling families and devastation to become among the China: The Bubble that Never Pops by Sherman Lee published Wchat amongst the aristocracy, was uniformed civilians during the richest, most developed and China Without Dragons: by Thomas Orlik. OUP USA, ISBN 978-0190877408, £22.95 Adecades ago (Chinese Art a lecture given by James CY Watt, anything but ‘daily’ with its rich Cultural Revolution mingle with powerful societies on earth. The Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Under the Mongols: Yuan Dynasty, now Curator Emeritus of the tradition of splendour – usually in The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, key historical figures such as the author sets off on a journey by car, The Yuan served by Regina Krahl. CA Book Publishing, 1279-1368, in 1968), this exhibition Asian Art Department, on this exhibition the form of gold, or cloth of gold, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Mao boat, train and plane through all from 2010, organised by the then nasij. An innovation from Central as a transition Bilingual edition, ISBN 978-9888272181, £95 real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories Zedong, all interspersed by recent three countries, ending up in a Brooke Russell Astor Chairman of Asia, this technique attests to the This catalogue commemorates an fated for bankruptcy. A banking system more than landscapes and photos as unexpected fourth, Taiwan. the Metropolitan Museum’s mass movement of weavers from the period between exhibition of over 200 pieces of twice the size of the US and an economy still a third as a still life of mangoes. department of Asian Art, James CY eastern Iranian world to China Chinese and related ceramics smaller. A looming trade war with the US that Kings of Shanghai Watt, was the only major exploration during the Mongol period. Coming two Han Chinese collected within the members of the threatens to lock its factories out of the world’s biggest market. An The Story of China: by Jonathan Kaufman since of the first of two foreign from a Central Asian tradition, the Oriental Ceramic Society of urban landscape littered with ghost towns of empty property. An A portrait of a civilisation and its people Little Brown, ISBN 978-1408710043, £30 cultures that ever conquered and love of gold, like amongst the Liao, dynasties London. The selection spans the industrial sector strewn with state-owned zombie firms. A 200 million by Michael Wood. Simon & Schuster, Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, controlled the Celestial Empire. Both was unreserved and the Yuan complete range from Neolithic to strong migrant workforce treated as second-class citizens in the cities ISBN 978-1471176012, £30 located on the city’s famous the Yuan and the Qing began as adopted and adapted the gold styles contemporary ceramics, from minor where they live and work. And yet, against the odds and against Michael Wood, one of the UK’s waterfront, is one of the most second- rate Asian cultures with first- of the Song, added their own kilns in many different regions to the expectations, growth continues, wealth rises, global influence expands. best-known historians, has written a glamorous in the world. Built by rate military forces, and even though particular tastes and produced it in major kilns working for the court, The coming collapse of China is always coming, never arriving. Tom major new one-volume history of Victor Sassoon – billionaire playboy the Manchurian Qing preserved quantities, as seen by several and from pieces of academic interest Orlik, a veteran of more than a decade on the ground in Beijing and China exploring the country’s and scion of the Sassoon dynasty – many of their own traditions, the remarkable small pieces in the to world-famous masterpieces. The Shanghai, turns the spotlight on China’s fragile fundamentals, and burgeoning role in our world today. the hotel hosts a who’s who of global Mongolian Yuan quickly became exhibition. Nasij, appears to have book looks at rarely seen pieces and resources for resilience. Drawing on discussions with the Communist The narrative, which mingles the celebrities: Noel Coward has written Sinicised and were responsible for the arrived through the filter of Sogdian avoids well known, repetitive designs cadres planning China’s rise, the bankers providing the financing, and grand sweep with local and personal a draft of Private Lives in his suite, largest importation of non-Asian art, craftsmen and the results are the field and the exhibition was such as that of the dragon, which is the labourers sweating the construction sites, Orlik pieces together a stories, woven together with the Charlie Chaplin entertained his culture and technology that China stunning – the cloth is often seen fortunately rich in the art form. so firmly identified with China that unique perspective on China’s past, present, and possible futures. author’s own travel journals, is an wife-to-be, and the American would ever witness before the advent with repeated roundels, confronting Woodblock printing, originating in it has become a cliché of Chinese art. account of China’s 4,000-year-old socialite Wallis Simpson reportedly of the modern age. The time of the beasts, and organised arabesques. the 8th century, was normally the tradition, taking in life stationed on posed for ‘glamour’ photographs. A Yuan served as a transition between It is only because of travel that vehicle for religious texts and Kinrande: Porcelain Dressed in Gold Sunken Treasures: Discoveries in shipwrecks the story line of Chinese calligraphy. the Great Wall or inside the few miles away, Mao and the two Han Chinese dynasties, the Song transmissions occurred and that illustrations, but under the Yuan, its Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing, from the Maritime Silk Road 800-1900 In this volume, Lei Xue examines Forbidden City. The story is nascent Communist party have been and the Ming, injecting the society aspect has been treated to its own use as a vehicle for popular stories ISBN 978-0993506895, £320 edited by Eline van den Berg and Karin Gaillard previous epigraphic studies and enriched with the latest plotting revolution before being with radical changes and additions on subsection. The archaeology and and history permanently expanded Including 48 individual pieces from Waanders & de Kunst Publishers, recent archaeological finds to archaeological and documentary forced to flee the city. By the 1930s, almost every front. For that reason history subsection explains in detail its use. this most rare of Chinese porcelain ISBN 9789462622579, £29.95 consider the origin of the work in discoveries. In the modern era, the the Sassoons had been doing this major exhibition boldly attempts the importance of archaeological The Religious Art section is of groups, this book showcases a The book presents and describes the the 6th century and then trace its book looks at manifestos of the business in China for a century, and successfully succeeds in exposing work over the last two decades and particular importance, not just from collection that has taken us over treasures hidden away in centuries- history after the 11th century. feminist revolutionaries Qiu Jin and rivalled in wealth and influence by and explaining the major shifts, the remarkable works of art that have the point of view that art works of 22 years to assemble. Named after old shipwrecks: visible treasures like He Zhen, eye-witness accounts of only one other dynasty – the additions, expansions and permanent been uncovered, adding to our religious intent are displayed and the Japanese word for ‘gold brocade’, Chinese porcelain, as well as Furnishing the Gracious Home the Japanese invasion, the Great Kadoories. These two Jewish broadening of the multiple facets of repository of knowledge and discussed, but rather because of the Kinrande wares are one of the rarest invisible treasures in the form of new by Philip Mak. Famine and the Cultural Revolution families, both originally from China’s cultural and societal understanding of this fleeting period great number of different religions and most exquisite types of Chinese knowledge revealed by the ships and CA Book Publishing, ISBN 9789887440857, £95 under Chairman Mao, as well as Baghdad, stood astride Chinese infrastructure. Khubilai Khan as the First Yuan Emperor, Shizu, Yuan dynasty, 1271-1368, of creative brilliance. The exhibition involved. It is common knowledge porcelain produced in Jingdezhen. their cargos. The stories of seven Chinese furniture design had been newly published sources for the great business and politics for more than China, then the largest nation on album leaf, ink and colour on silk, 59.1 x 47.6 cm, was rich in archaic style ritual vessels that Xi’an under the Tang was the These wares are distinguished by the shipwrecks not only paint a picture improved through the centuries, turning points in China’s modern one 175 years, profiting from the earth, was only one of five parts of National Palace Museum, Taipei in bronze and pottery in archaic style, home to a Nestorian church, a mosque, use of gold foil designs on of the Maritime Silk Road but also maturing during the 14th century. history, including the Tiananmen Opium Wars; surviving Japanese what has been called the ‘Mongol stone carvings of animals, seals and and a synagogue. The Yuan, however, monochrome, mainly iron-red, of the development of maritime The Qing furniture developed from Square crisis of 1989, and the new occupation; courting Chiang World Empire’, the largest empire foreign ceramics, including a fine served as hosts for resident practitioners grounds. Kinrande porcelain was archaeology in the Netherlands and Ming-style furniture; it was order of President Xi Jinping. Kai-shek; and nearly losing the world had ever seen, covering at Goryeo-period (918-1392) celadon and houses of worship for Buddhism, initially made in China during the in Asia. Text in English and Dutch. attractive with ornate novel everything as the Communists its greatest extent an area of almost water dropper in the form of a Daoism, Confucianism, Nestorian Jiajing period (1522-1566), and decorative elements. In the past, Three Tigers, One Mountain swept into power. In a story 13,000,000 square miles/33,000,000 tortoise with a dragon’s head. dating Christianity, Persian Manichaeism, appeared on international markets Eulogy for Burying a Crane those who had resources could by Michael Booth stretching from Baghdad to square kilometres, 22% of the from the 12th/13th century, it Hinduism and Islam and the sheer between the second half of the 16th by Lei Xue afford to live in a gracious residence Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-1910702956, £14.99 Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Earth’s total land area. Including the appears to me as being a product of internationalism of Yuan society is and early 17th centuries. University of Washington Press, such as the four-closed courtyard The Chinese, Koreans and Japanese Kaufman enters the lives and minds Empire of the Great Khan (China the Kangjin kilns near Pusan, the evident in this particular section of ISBN 978-0295746364, £54 house (siheyuan). The four-closed are more than neighbours, they are of these ambitious men and women and north into Siberia,) the Golden source of the finest early celadons. this exhibition. The Pottery Age: Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he courtyard house is the Chinese art siblings from a Confucian family. to forge a tale of opium smuggling, Horde (or Kipchak Khanate), the The Painting, Woodblock Prints, Whether one is captivated by the An Appreciation of Neolithic Ceramics from ming) is perhaps the most eccentric of enclosing space to create an ideal They share so much culturally, from family rivalry, political intrigue White Horde (or the Ilkhanate), and and Calligraphy section is self- multifaceted aspects of Yuan China circa 7000 BC to circa 1000 BC piece in China’s calligraphic canon. environment for habitation. The this ancient philosophy with its and survival. the Changhadai Khanate, it explanatory and dwells on the four painting, the brilliance of the golden by Ronald W Longsdorf. CA Book Publishing, Apparently marking the burial of a multifunctional Chinese classical hierarchical, bureaucratic legacy, to stretched south to Cambodia, west Yuan Masters who continue the works of art and textiles, the ISBN 9789888272228, £250 crane, the large inscription, datable furniture facilitates the indoor and rice-growing, art, architecture, Hsiao Chin and Punto: to the Danube River, north into West Lake tradition and expand it in sculptured works, the daily items of These 100 examples, from various to 514, was once carved into a cliff outdoor activities of its inhabitants. chopsticks, noodles and much more Mapping Post-War Avant-Garde Siberia and Russia and east to the wondrous ways of their own, the delicacy of the jewellery, this Neolithic cultures throughout the on Jiaoshan Island in the Yangzi Siheyuan is divided into chambers which has been passed down from by Joshua Gong Sea of Japan. especially in the way they gave exhibition was a profound display of region known today as China, are River. Since the discovery of its such as the hall, female chamber, China over millennia. In turn, Unicorn Publishing, ISBN 9781912690831, £30 Mongol rule over China lasted heightened emphasis to the the synthesis of what had preceded described in this catalogue by the ruins in the early 11th century, it has etc. The book provides details on China has modelled much of its Artist Hsiao Chin spent his only 89 years (1279-1368), but calligraphic qualities that the brush this dynasty, what was imported by it collector himself, focusing on their fascinated generations of scholars which pieces of furniture should be recent industrial and economic formative years in Europe during that very brief period China can lend to a painting and the and the resulting classifications and design and engineering ingenuities and calligraphers and been displayed in each chamber, as well as strategy on Japan’s post-war experiencing the Western Modern became an integral part of a greater calligraphy subsection dwells on styles of art that served as what and their artistic merits. After a enshrined as a calligraphic full-colour illustrations and manufacturing miracle, and adores Art movement and has contributed unit, like the European Union today, Zhao Mengfu, who mastered both would forever be called traditional in 50-year career in consumer product masterpiece. Nonetheless, sceptics diagrams of how each piece was contemporary Korean popular hugely to the development of that served to facilitate a flood of new Architectural relief depicting the Hindu legend of Gajaranya Kshetra, styles of brushwork so well that he the arts and culture of China design, author Ronald W Longsdorf have questioned the quality of the made and assembled. The author culture. In this new book, which avant-garde art and established ideas and technologies beyond late 13th/early 14th century, from an unrecorded Hindu temple in Quanzhou, successfully blurred the line between Martin Barnes Lorber applies the principles of that calligraphy and complained that its guides the readers through, blends popular anthropology, himself as a pioneer of modern borders that could never have arrived diabase granite, 50.2 x 70.5 cm, Quanzhou Maritime Museum, Fujian Province them. One often thinks that • The World of Khubilai Khan: discipline to these Neolithic pots, fragmentary state and worn narrating the placement of furniture history, politics and travel, the abstract art. Hsiao, as co-founder of through the normal international paintings of horses are a Tang Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty including comparisons of pieces in characters make assessment of its with inherent social implications. subjects are these Asian tigers that Punto Movement, is the first and highways of commercial contacts. speciality, but it is the Yuan, from an was held at The Metropolitan Museum museums. Text in English and artistic value impossible. Moreover, have endured occupation, war and Continued on page 14 The Middle-Eastern territories equine-based society, who dominate of Art in 2010. Catalogue available. Chinese. historians have trouble fitting it into Midnight Tweedle served as the most important of the by Zhang Lije foreign sources, for it was the origin A Catalogue is available, or download the pdf here Steidl, ISBN 978-3958293144, £30 Imperial China: The Definitive Visual History of sophisticated technologies, Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilisation Midnight Tweedle is Zhang Lijie’s DK, ISBN 978-0241388327, £30 sciences and new ideas and and the Making of China personal portrait of China’s complex Covering more than 5,000 years of history and philosophies, but also exotic artistic by John Man. Pegasus, ISBN 978-1643133270, £16.99 cultural and political history. featuring images of artefacts not previously seen designs and styles. In the field of the The people of the first nomadic empire left no written Juxtaposing diverse and seemingly outside of China, this definitive visual guide will arts, the most important was records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart unrelated images with a collage captivate readers with the key events that shaped probably the use of cobalt blue ore as of Asia for four centuries, and changed the world in technique, Lijie explores the depths Chinese history and laid the foundations of the decoration for porcelains, accounting the process. The Mongols, today’s descendants of of Chinese collective memory in a modern nation. Starting with prehistory and early for its being called ‘Mohammedan Genghis Khan, see these people as ancestors. Their process she describes as ‘whispering humans, Imperial China sets the scene for the arrival of China’s first Blue’ in England and Europe until rise cemented Chinese identity and inspired the first Great Wall. Their to herself … to understand where we dynasty, and reveals how the warring states of early China gave birth to the mid-20th century. descendants helped destroy the Roman Empire under the leadership of come from and where we are going’. the emperor-led dynasties – and China’s long imperial age. With Because of the immensity of the Attila the Hun. We do not know what language they spoke, but they This book combines materials as illuminating features on important historical figures, cultural exhibition, the richness of became known as Xiongnu, or Hunnu, a term passed down the varied as found and original photos, achievements, and philosophy - such as the rise of Confucianism and information and the lavish number centuries and surviving today as ‘Hun’, and Man uncovers new posters, illustrations and even a meal the silk and tea trades - Imperial China explores how the Chinese of works of art on display, it has been Stem cup, Yuan dynasty, 1271-1368, Mongol dancer, Jin or Yuan dynasty, evidence that will transform our understanding of the profound mark ticket from the planned economy empire flourished and declined over the course of two millennia – from divided into four sections: Daily Life, gold, height 14.3 cm, Inner Mongolia 13th century, pottery, height 40 cm, they left on half the globe, from Europe to Central Asia and deep time which Lijie either collected the unifying ‘first emperor’ of the Qin and the golden ages of Tang and Painting and Calligraphy, Religious Autonomous Region Museum, Henan Province, 1973, Henan Bowl with Daoist figures, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), jade, height 6.4 cm, into China. from antique markets, newspapers Song, to the final fall of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Arts and Decorative Arts. purchase from the J H Wade Fund Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art. anonymous gift, 1952 and the internet, or created herself. asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 14 Books Books 15

publication found its way to Europe, and even surviving patches of Moon Rabbit: The Chinese Journey informing the encounter between Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time painted decoration. In the past, the Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company by Rosemarie Zens. Kehrer Verlag, ISBN 978-3868289725, £37 China and Western empires. The by Anna Jackson. V&A Publishing, ISBN 978-1851779925, £40 by Anna Sherman. Picador, ISBN 978-1529000498, £9.99 extraordinary work at the site has by William Dalrymple, et al. Philip Wilson Publishers, At the beginning of her trip to China in 1998, author breaks down long-accepted Thekimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, unfortunately been eclipsed by the ISBN 978-1781300978, £28 Rosemarie Zens found a predominantly agricultural assumptions about the connection within the country as the embodiment of national developing a remarkable and unique culture. During exceptional nature of its As the East India Company extended its sway multinational state and photographed landscapes and between knowledge regimes and culture and regarded internationally as an exotic its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of surroundings. The architecture and across India in the late 18th century, many everyday scenes that reminded her of pre-modern imperial power and excavates an fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to sculpture are often immersed in remarkable artworks were commissioned by times in our Western world. In a time window of 20 intellectual legacy largely neglected traditional, unchanging and timeless, but this book tell the time. Anna Sherman tells of her search for the darkness and this has made it Company officials from Indian painters who had years, ground-breaking developments such as the by historians. counters that conception, presenting the kimono as bells of Edo, exploring the city of Tokyo and its impossible to create the kind of previously worked for the Mughals. The book technical transition from analogue to digital photography and a rapid highly dynamic and fashionable dress. The cultural and sartorial inhabitants and the individual and particular relationship of Japanese photographic record that would give celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with structural change within Chinese society took place. The memorable Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese significance of the kimono is explored in historical and contemporary culture - and the Japanese language - to time, tradition, memory, their stunning quality the visibility their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British photographs show how China is increasingly oriented towards Western Communist Party is Reshaping the World contexts, both in Japan and the West, where its impact on clothing impermanence and history. Through Sherman’s journeys around the it deserves. But now Iago Corazza, patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in culture and how homogenising forces such as science, technology and by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg styles has been felt since the 17th century. The book features over 250 city and her friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who with his ultra-sensitive photographic 1857. The works shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian the global market influence individual life. Oneworld, ISBN 978-1786077837, £20 kimono and kimono-inspired garments from the V&A and collections elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, the book equipment, is able at last to give history during which Indian artists responded to European influences The Chinese Communist Party around the world. presents a series of hauntingly memorable voices in the labyrinth that is lovers of Indian art and enthusiasts while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists wants to show the world its might. the metropolis of the Japanese capital: An aristocrat plays in the sea of the chance to fully appreciate this represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the only post-war Chinese artist to local archives as well as other rare Through its enormous economic ashes left by the Allied firebombing of 1945. A scientist builds the wonderful, indeed unique, group of twin assaults – photography and the influence of Western colonial art convey Eastern philosophical ideas primary sources, he demonstrates power and covert influence from the earliest written accounts of Craftland Japan most accurate clock in the world, a clock that will not lose a second in rock-cut temples. schools – ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two and the concepts of mindfulness and that the Communist Party’s goal in operations, China is now weakening Japan right through to the life of the by Uwe Rottgen and Katharina Zettle five billion years. A sculptor eats his father’s ashes while the head of the thousand years. self-contemplation in the Western 1950s Amdo was not just state- global institutions, targeting current empress, Masako. We Thames & Hudson, house of Tokugawa reflects on the destruction of his grandfather’s city The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World pictorial language of abstraction. building, but also nation-building. individual corporations, and encounter shamans and warlords, ISBN 978-0500295342, £24.95 (‘A lost thing is lost. To chase it leads to darkness’). editor Rachel Mairs. Routledge Worlds, Such an objective required the challenging the freedom of poets and revolutionaries, scientists, In Japanese life and culture, there has ISBN 978-1138090699, £190 The Colour of the Sky After Rain construction of narratives and expression from the arts to artists and adventurers – each never been a clear distinction between This volume provides a thorough Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution by Tessa Keswick. Head of Zeus, policies capable of convincing academia. At the same time, offering insights of their own into art, craft and design. Generations of rural landscapes that surround them. known North Korean art scene, and conspectus of the field of by Imma Ramos. Thames & Hudson, ISBN 978-0500480625, £30 ISBN 978-1789545036, £30 Tibetans of their membership in a Western security services are this land’s history. artisans have for centuries forged and The authors portray 25 artisans, who all the artists who have emerged to Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Published to complement the exhibition of the Tessa Keswick first travelled to wider political community. As increasingly worried about refined their crafts, which have work with natural materials to secure a place in the international studies, mixing theoretical and same name at the British Museum, the catalogue China in 1982 and immediately fell Weiner shows, however, early efforts incursions into communications The Art of Impermanence: become the envy of the modern produce objects that are intended for art world. historical surveys with critical and explores the radical force that transformed the in love with its history, culture and to gradually and organically infrastructure. Japanese Works from the John C Weber world. Regions of Japan are renowned everyday life but are worthy of thought-provoking case studies in religious, cultural and political landscape of India landscape. Over the next 30 years, transform a vast multi-ethnic empire Collection and Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller for specific traditions, many of which museum display. archaeology, history, literature and and beyond. A philosophy originating in medieval she travelled extensively in China, into a singular nation-state lost out The Emperor’s New Road: China and the by Adriana Proser and Melinda Takeuchi are born of local materials and the South Asia art. The chapters from this India, Tantra has been linked to successive waves visiting its temples and landmarks, to a revolutionary impatience. This Project of the Century Officina Libraria, ISBN 978-8833670836, £50 natural settings in which they are Zaido international group of experts of revolutionary thought – from its 6th-century transformation of the sites of its most famous battles, led in 1958 to communication, then by Jonathan Hillman. Yale University Press, This catalogue presents masterpieces produced. Spurred by an awareness of by Yukari Chikura. Steidl, Royals and Rebels: showcase innovative methodologies, Hinduism and Buddhism, to the Indian fight for independence and the and the birthplaces of its best- to large-scale rebellion and its brutal ISBN 978-0300244588, £20 of calligraphy, painting, sculpture, the unseen treasures produced by ISBN 978-3958293137, £75 The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire such as archaeological GIS, as well rise of 1960s counterculture. Centring on the power of divine feminine known poets and philosophers. pacification. Rather than joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative is ceramics, lacquers, and textiles from these crafts people, designer-authors This book is Yukari Chikura’s by Priya Atwal as providing accessible explanations energy, Tantra inspired the dramatic rise of goddess worship in She also witnessed China’s voluntarily, Amdo was integrated the world’s most ambitious and two of America’s greatest Japanese Uwe Röttgen and Katharina Zettl preservation of the 1,300-year-old C Hurst & Co, ISBN 978-1787383081, £20 of specialist techniques such as die medieval India and continues to influence contemporary feminist transformation, as hundreds of through the widespread, often misunderstood geo-economic vision. art collections, which are featured in set out across the country to find the Japanese ritual festival called Zaido. In late 18th-century India, the glory studies of coins, and important thought and artistic practice. millions were lifted out of poverty indiscriminate use of violence, To carry out President Xi Jinping’s a landmark exhibition at the Asia finest examples, to document the Following a series of tragedies of the Mughal emperors was fading, theoretical perspectives, including and the country emerged as an a violence that lingers in the flagship foreign-policy effort, China Society in New York in 2020. makers and their workshops and the including her father’s sudden death, and ambitious newcomers seized postcolonial approaches to the economic superpower in waiting. living memory of Amdo Tibetans promises to spend over one trillion Impermanence is a pervasive subject her own critical accident and the power, changing the political map Greeks in India. Chapters cover the Cloth that Changed the World: eventually sparked the mechanical Keswick’s observations of life in and others. dollars for new ports, railways, in Japanese philosophy and art, and 2011 Tohoku earthquake and forever. Enter the legendary region’s archaeology, written and The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz and business innovations that China are perceptive and full of fibre-optic cables, power plants, and recognising the role of ephemerality Japan: Courts tsunami, she set off on a restorative Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose numismatic sources, and a history of by Sarah Fee. Yale University Press, ushered in the Industrial insight. By presenting a colourfully Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and other connections. The plan touches is key to appreciating much of and Culture pilgrimage to northeast Japan (the Sikh Empire stretched throughout scholarship of the subject, as well as ISBN 978-0300246797, £35 Revolution, with its far-reaching woven tapestry of contrasting Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power more than one hundred and thirty Japan’s artistic production. The edited by Rachel first of numerous journeys), which northwestern India into culture, identity and interactions The story of India’s exuberantly societal impacts. The book experiences and localities, she allows by Gregory Afinogenov. Belknap Press, countries and has expanded into the range of art and objects in the Peat. Royal resulted in this book. Chikura Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal with neighbouring empires, coloured textiles that made their showcases the genius of Indian the reader to glimpse the sheer ISBN 978-0674241855, £36.95 Arctic, cyberspace, and even outer catalogue show the broad, yet Collection Trust, arrived at the village, surreally silver shines fresh light on this long-lost including India and China. mark on design, technology, and chintz makers and the dazzling diversity of China and its vast The untold story of how Russian space. Beijing says that it is nuanced, ways that the notion of the ISBN 978-1909 in the snow and mist, and there kingdom, looking beyond its trade around the world Chintz, a variety of works they have created population. espionage in imperial China shaped promoting global development, but ephemeral manifests itself in the arts 7416 83, £49.95 discovered Zaido, where inhabitants founding father to restore the queens Bullocks, Grain, and Good Madeira: type of multi-coloured printed or for specialized markets: religious the emergence of the Russian Washington warns that it is charting of Japan throughout history. This from different villages gather on the and princes to the story of this The Maratha and Jat Campaigns, 1803-1806 painted cotton cloth, originated in and court banners for India, Once Upon a Time in Shanghai Empire as a global power. From the a path to global dominance. Taking Contributions from noted scholars catalogue accompanies a second day of each new year and empire’s spectacular rise and fall. and the emergence of an Indian Army India yet exerted influence far monumental gilded wall hangings by Michael Berry and Mark Parascandola 17th to the 19th century, the readers on a journey to China’s explore the aesthetics of proposed exhibition of the conduct a ritual dance to induce She brings to life a self-made ruling by Joshua Proven. Helion and Company, beyond its home shores: it became a for elite homes in Europe and China, poised to become the world’s Russian Empire made concerted projects in Asia, Europe, and Africa, impermanence in religion, literature, same name that tells the story good fortune. Combining photos of family, inventively fusing Sikh, ISBN 978-1913336547, £20 driving force of the spice trade in the Thailand, luxury women’s dress for largest film market, is home to an efforts to collect information about the author reveals how this grand artefacts, the tea ceremony, and of British royal contact with snowscapes that border on Mughal and European ideas of On the last day of the year 1802, the East Indies, and it attracted England, sacred hangings for expansive state-supported film and China. It bribed Chinese porcelain- vision is unfolding. As China pushes popular culture in objects dating Japan between 1603 and 1937, abstraction with images of the power, but eventually succumbing to Maratha Peshwa Bajirao II signed European merchants, who by the ancestral ceremonies in Indonesia, television industry. On an makers to give up trade secrets, sent beyond its borders and deep into from the late Jomon period (circa when the exchange of works of intricate masks and costumes of gendered family politics, as the Sikh the treaty of Bassein which sparked 17th century were importing and today’s runways of Lakme unparalleled scale, entire towns have Buddhist monks to Mongolia on dangerous territory, it is repeating 1000-300 BC) to the 20th century. arts was central to both Zaido, Chikura depicts the cultural Empire fell to its great rival in the the Second Anglo Maratha War. millions of pieces. In the 18th Fashion Week in Mumbai. been built around making movies. intelligence-gathering missions, and the mistakes of the great powers that diplomatic relations and diversity of the participants as well new India: the British. What began as a seemingly century, Indian chintz became so Given film censorship codes in trained students at its Orthodox came before it, Hillman argues. Breaking out of Tradition: cultural contact. As a result, as their common bond in creating straightforward operation to restore coveted globally that Europeans The Indian Empire At War: China, period films provide a safe mission in Beijing to spy on their Japanese Lacquer 1890 - 1950 the Royal Collection has one collective memory and ensuring the Ellora the Peshwa and complete Lord attempted to imitate its uniquely From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of and familiar format to tell stories hosts. From diplomatic offices to China Bound by Jan Dees and Munster Museum for of the most significant survival of this ritual. by Christophe Hioco. Continents Editions, ISBN Wellesley’s expansionist policy vibrant dyes and design-a quest that the Indian Army in the First World War based around ‘official’ narratives. guard posts on the Chinese frontier, by Robert Bickers Lackkunst. Hirmer, ISBN 978-3777435060, holdings of Japanese works of 9788874398720, £55 turned into a full-scale conflict for by George Morton-Jack. Abacus, The film sets, rivalling real-world Russians were producing knowledge Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1472949943, £30 Breaking out of Tradition traces the art in the Western world. Korean Art from 1953 Thirty-four places of worship political hegemony which spread ISBN 978-0349141848, £12.99 cities and monuments in their scale, everywhere, not only at elite From its origins in Liverpool in pioneering developments in lacquer Featuring new research on editors: Yeon Shim Chung, Sunjung Kim, (temples, monasteries, and shrines) across central and northern India Patterns of A history of the First World War, have themselves become destinations institutions like the Academy of 1816, one British firm has threaded art at the beginning of the 20th previously unpublished works, Kimberly Chung, and Keith B Wagner were carved out of the rock between and was to establish the East India India: A Journey re-tracing the footsteps of the for domestic and international Sciences in St Petersburg. But that a way through two centuries that century in Japan. The lacquer artists the book showcases the Phaidon Press, ISBN 978-0714878331, £59.95 the 5th and 10th centuries over an Company as the foremost power in Through Colours, Indian Army’s 1.5 million men, tourists. Despite the fiction, they information was secret, not destined have seen tumultuous events and of that time adopted a critical and unparalleled craftsmanship Starting with the armistice that area of around two square South Asia. In military terms it was Textiles, who in 1914-18, served about the bear witness to a dynamic and for wide circulation. In the 17th epochal transformations in creative approach to the centuries- behind rare examples of divided the Korean Peninsula in kilometres. All the sculpture at the the event which a little-known and the Vibrancy globe from Europe to Africa, Asia changing China. century, Russian bureaucrats were technologies and societies. John old traditions, experimenting with porcelain, lacquer, armour, 1953, this one-of-a-kind book site is testimony to the superb skill general named Arthur Wellesley of Rajasthan and the Indian Ocean. After years focused on China and the forbidding Swire & Sons, a small trading innovative techniques and new embroidery, metalwork and spotlights the artistic movements and sheer determination of the came to prominence and it also by Christine of neglect, The Indian Empire at The Chinese Revolution on the Siberian frontier. They relied more company that began by importing materials, thereby also providing works on paper, and explores and collectives that have flourished workforce involved, as well as being established the supremacy of the Chitnis. Pisces War raises the curtain on the Tibetan Frontier on spies, including Jesuit scholars dyes, cotton and apples from the new stimuli for Western art. The the local materials, techniques and evolved throughout Korean evidence of the religious harmony of EIC’s Native Army over the regular Books, ISBN 978-0525577096, £16.50 Indian soldiers’ personal by Benno Weiner. Cornell University Press, stationed in China. In the early 19th Americas, now directs a highly publication examines the revolution and traditions involved in their culture over the past seven decades the time. The monuments include all armies of the ‘country powers’. It is often within the details of experiences fighting for the Allies ISBN 978-1501749391, £39 century, the geopolitical challenge diversified group of interests in Japanese lacquer art from the end creation. The exhibition has – from the 1950s avant-garde sorts of architectural and decorative It was during these testing patterns that the full story against the Central Powers, and Benno Weiner’s book provides the shifted to Europe: rivalry with operating across the globe but with a of the 19th until the middle of the been reschedule for 2022. through to the feminist scene in the features that display the utmost campaigns that Europeans began to comes to light. Photographer returning home to play their part first in-depth study of an ethnic Britain drove the Russians to stake core focus on Asia. From 1866, its 20th century. 1970s, the birth of the Gwangju splendour and inventiveness: view what was already being called and writer Christine Chitnis in the Indian Independence minority region during the first their prestige on public-facing fate was intertwined with Biennale in the 1990s, the lesser- columns, staircases, reliefs, stuccos, the ‘Indian Army’ with respect. spent over a decade travelling movement. decade of the People’s Republic of intellectual work, and knowledge of developments in China, with the Despite a series of crushing through, getting to know, and China: the Amdo region in the the East was embedded in the story of steam, and later of flight, Painting Edo Selections from the defeats, the Marathas stunned their falling in love with the Sri Lanka: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained Sino-Tibetan borderland. academy. Knowledge filtered and with the movements of people Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art Stranger in the Shogun’s City: enemies with their bravery and intricate patterns of everyday by Michael Naseby. Unicorn, Employing previously inaccessible through Russian espionage and and of goods that made the modern by Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit. A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century professionalism, exacting a heavy Rajasthani life. With history ISBN 978-1912690749, £20 world. The book charts the story of Harvard Art Museums, by Amy Stanley. Chatto & WIndus, ISBN 978-1784742300, £16.99 toll on the British despite great and culture-based essays Marco Polo in 1298 described the firm, its family owners and staff, ISBN 9780300250893, £25 The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born handicaps in command and control. woven throughout the more ‘Seyllan’ as the most beautiful The ‘Other’ Shangri-La its operations, its successes and its Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868) witnessed the in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected Although successful, the conclusion than 200 colourful island of it size in the world. The by Shivaji Das. Konark Publisher, disasters, as it endured wars, arrival of peace after centuries of warfare, to live a life much like her mother’s. But after three of the war was much less glorious photographs of architecture, Greeks and Romans praised ISBN 978-8194201861, £12.99 uprisings and revolutions, the rise together with economic prosperity, population divorces – and with a temperament much too than the biographies of the Duke of markets, cuisine, art, and ‘Taprobane’ and 18th-century The ‘Other’ Shangri-La is a work of narrative and fall of empires – China’s, growth, and increased urbanisation. The arts of the period flourished, strong-willed for her family’s approval – she ran away Wellington care to admit. Few textiles. Colour is the thread travellers praised ‘Serendip’ from non-fiction based on Shivaji Das and his wife’s Britain’s, Japan’s and the twists and reflecting and inflecting these fertile conditions. Painting Edo: to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a conflicts from this time convey in that binds the vast country which name comes the word journey through the Sino-Tibetan frontier land of turns of the global economy. Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art explores this bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we such detail the challenges faced by together, defining every aspect serendipity – the luck of the western Sichuan. It describes the rugged landscape of rich visual culture, highlighting works from an unparalleled collection experience the drama and excitement of Edo just before the arrival of field commanders conducting of life from religion and unexpected. So it was for Lord this region that comprises 7,000-metre-high to showcase the masters of various Edo schools and lineages. Beautiful Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet, which would open Japan up to operations in India and fewer books politics to food and dress. Naseby, then plain Michael Morris mountains, deep gorges, vast grasslands and the world’s most Japan & Korea illustrations punctuate the catalogue’s essays: Yukio Lippit situates the trade and diplomacy with the West for the first time. During this continue the story of the Second Organised by the five working in challenging Calcutta, dangerous roads. It also explores the region’s history and the works within a broad cultural history of early modern Japan, and pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement Maratha War to its ultimate dominant colours royal blue, was told in May 1963 that he must peculiarities of its scattered settlements: Litang – the world’s highest The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Rachel Saunders focuses on a single artist, offering fresh perspectives to tenement, marries a masterless samurai and eventually ends up in conclusion in the Punjab where the sandstone, marigold, ivory, and go urgently to Colombo, Ceylon to town that is also the birthplace of important lamas; Larung – the by Christopher Harding. Allen Lane, on the late ‘bird-and-flower paintings’ of Sakai Hoitsu. Together, these the service of a famous city magistrate. An extraordinary woman last Maratha prince surrendered, rose, this book explores how handle a crisis. This book is a world’s largest monastery and highest slum; Danba, ‘Beauty Valley’ ISBN 978-0241434505, £25 essays unpack the literary, artistic, and cultural histories that form the at an extraordinary time, Tsuneno’s life provides a window into this after the British ‘siege lords’ deeply colour and pattern exist celebration of Lord Naseby’s famed since antiquity for its good-looking and strong-minded women; This is a history of Japan, distilled basis for how these masterful works would have been received in their 19th-century Japanese culture – and a rare view of a woman who under General Lake had been in a symbiotic relationship and subsequent unique involvement Yading, a pilgrim circuit once terrorised by bandit monks; and into the stories of 20 remarkable time – and for how we can best understand them today. A complete sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, humbled before the mighty mud are woven into every part of with Sri Lanka, its people and its Kangding, a small town that gave birth to China’s favourite love song. individuals. The vivid and catalogue of the Feinberg Collection was published in July 2020. despite social conventions. walls of the impregnable the culture. politics over the last 50 years. entertaining portraits take the reader Jat fortress of Bharatpur. Continued on page 16 asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 16 Books Books 17

asianart Painting In the Kangra Valley Himalaya: A Human History Roads and Kingdoms: by Vijay Sharma. Niyogi Books, ISBN 978-9389136654, £58 by Ed Douglas. Bodley Head, ISBN 978-1847924131, £25 aaa newspaper A subcontinental history of the lands now Pakistan archive This is an attempt to survey the painting styles Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to by Catriona Luke, ISBN 978-1474617284, £20 of Guler and Kangra, which flourished in the the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Read our unique archive of The region now known as Pakistan has been a source 18th and 19th centuries. The painting activity Himalaya is an account of resilience and conquest, features and book reviews of fascination for invading emperors and armies, began with Kashmiri painters, who started discovery and plunder, oppression and enlightenment traders and travellers and ambassadors for centuries. SUscribeb receiving royal patronage during the reign of at the ‘roof of the world’. From all around the globe, This is where some of the most sophisticated concepts to have access Raja Dalip Singh (1695-1741) of Guler. But it the unique and astonishing geography of the of life were refined – metaphysics and the tradition of to our archive attained culmination during the long reign of Maharaja Sansar Chand Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: ethnic groups, speaking 700 individual liberty of the soul – and where the ancient Greeks of book reviews (1776 1823) of Kangra. The royal atelier of Kangra produced a large pilgrims, adventurers and mountaineers seeking to test themselves languages and dialects. For centuries formulated their notions of ‘apatheia’, or scepticism. Today this land is number of paintings covering diverse subjects. The advent of the among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far this vast and rich environment known as Pakistan, but it is a shape-shifting land and has had many Bhakti movement in north India had a tremendous impact, resulting in from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has throughout the ages favoured local and regional aliases. The history of the region comes into focus through different a preference for Krishna themes for the artists of Guler and Kangra. been home to an astonishing diversity of indigenous and local cultures, exchanges, and it was only later that numbers of peerhi – the Urdu word for ancestors, lineage, generation. The sentiment of love is the main subject of Guler-Kangra paintings. as well as a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone people visited from afar. New The past has a secret. It will always mirror the present. Roads and They illustrate the finest specimens of various kinds of nayika described for the world’s superpowers. Here, Jesuit missionaries exchanged connections integrated these Kingdoms also breaks the conventional way of narrating history by the Hindi poets of the riti genre. Vijay Sharma’s analytical approach technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans employed Nepali archipelagos with the distant chronologically, and as different times of the region’s history are gives new insights into the origin and development of the Guler school craftsmen, Armenian merchants exchanged musk and gold with civilisations of continental Asia: first accessed, it builds like brushstrokes of an impressionist painting – to and the marked influence of later Mughal painting on the styles of Mughals. Here, too, the East India Company grappled for dominance India, later China and from the 13th form a composite picture of a very old land with a distinguished Manaku and Nainsukh. with China’s emperors, independent India has been locked in conflict century onwards, the Islamic world. history. As the narrative unfolds, the boundaries of time, and how we with Mao’s Communists and their successors, and the ideological Finally, with the arrival of Europeans think we understand the past, dissolve. What is left is a subtle and confrontation of the Cold War is now being buried beneath mass in the early 16th century, global trade intricate portrait of a currently little explored region and its people. tourism and ecological transformation. Featuring scholars and tyrants, and connections grew rapidly. Spices, Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began bandits and CIA agents, go-betweens and revolutionaries, Himalaya is forest, and sea products were the by Frederick M Asher. Getty Publications, ISBN 9781606066164, £30 a panoramic, character-driven history on the grandest but also the focus of foreign interests, and textiles Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where most human scale. were the currency for their India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 the Buddha preached his first sermon and acquisition. These imported textiles, by Richard M Eaton. Penguin, ISBN 978-0141985398, £12.99 established the Buddhist monastic order. complemented with ornaments and The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations The arrival of Chinese army cars in attention. The author explains how jewellery, soon became part of the world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist 1959 changed everything. In the and why this happened, and details region’s social fabric, indispensable created its own religions, philosophies and social reliquary mounds (stupas), and some of the most wake of the deadly Tibetan an unsettling prognosis for the items of gift and exchange, essential systems. And yet this ancient land experienced important sculptures in the history of Indian art. This volume offers the Uprising, he escaped to India future. Are democracy and an markers for the enactment of prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples first critical examination of the historic site. Frederick M Asher through the Himalayas as a refugee. economy that genuinely serves all its ceremonies, rites of passage and and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, provides a longue durée (long-term) analysis of Sarnath-including the One of only 13 survivors out of 300 people possible in Burma? Thant signifiers of rank and prestige. Africa and, especially, Central Asia and the Iranian plateau between plunder, excavation, and display of antiquities and the Archaeological travellers, he spent the next few Myint-U explores this question – a the 11th and 18th centuries. The author’s latest new book tells this Survey of India’s presentation-and considers what lies beyond the years in the US, experiencing the concern not just for the Burmese but Seven Hundred Years: A History of Singapore extraordinary story with relish and originality. His major theme is the fenced-in excavated area. His analytical history of Sarnath’s excesses of the Woodstock for the rest of the world – warning of by Kwa Chong Guan, Derek Heng, rise of ‘Persianate’ culture – a many-faceted trans-regional world architectural and sculptural remains contains a significant study of the generation before reforming in the possible collapse of this nation of Peter Borschberg and Tan Tai Yong. informed by a canon of texts that circulated through ever-widening site’s sculptures, their uneven production, and their global distribution. Europe. Now in his seventies and a 55 million while suggesting a fresh Marshall Cavendish International, networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the 11th century leading monk at the Samye Ling agenda for change. ISBN 978-9814828109, £20 by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become monastery in Scotland – the first Assessments of Singapore’s history thoroughly indigenised by the time of the great Mughals in the 16th to Buddhist centre in the West – Lama A Royal Treasure: The Javanese Batik invariably revolve around Sir 18th centuries. This long-term process of cultural interaction and Himalayan Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at Collection of King Chulalongkorn of Siam Stamford Raffles’ arrival in 1819. assimilation is reflected in India’s language, literature, cuisine, attire, Eat the Buddha his momentous life. From his by Dale Carolyn Gluckma, Sarttarat Mudding Before this date we have been told religion, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, by Barbara Forbidden Memory: learnings on self-compassion and and Judi Achjadi. River Books, ‘nothing very much appears to have architecture, and more. The book elaborates the complex encounter Demick. Granta Tibet during the Cultural Revolution discipline to his trials and ISBN 978-6168044056, £75 happened in Singapore’. Pre-1819 between India’s Sanskrit culture, which continued to flourish and grow Publications, by Tsering Woeser and Susan Chen. tribulations with loss and failure, On each of his three visits to Singapore was a sleepy, historically throughout this period, and Persian culture, which helped shape the ISBN 978- Potomac Books, ISBN 978-1612349695, £30 his poignant story mirrors our Indonesia, the Thai monarch King insignificant fishing village, little Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and a host of regional states, and 1783785704, The Chinese Cultural Revolution own struggles. Chulalongkorn returned home to more than the ‘occasional resort of made India what it is today. £18.99 arrived in Tibet in July 1966. Upon Siam with pieces of handmade pirates’. This book, co-written by In Eat the its arrival, monasteries were batik. Preserved by the Bureau of four of Singapore’s foremost Buddha, Barbara Demick systematically destroyed and Southeast Asia the Royal Household at the Grand historians, offers an assertive chronicles the Tibetan tragedy libraries were looted. Long veiled in palace since 1910, the year the king re-evaluation of that view, firmly Islamic World miniature paintings from Firdausi’s from Ngaba, a defiant town mystery, the events that took place The Hidden History of Burma: passed away, the collection totals situating Singapore’s starting point Shahnama, sumptuous silk brocades on the eastern edge of the five decades ago are known to few A Crisis of Race and Capitalism over 300 pieces and today provides seven hundred years ago. Drawing Bestowing Beauty: and velvet embroideries, and Tibetan plateau where dozens outsiders. This book provides a by Thant Myint-U. Atlantic Books, key documentation of the batik on a multi-disciplinary range of Masterpieces from Persian Lands: monumental silk carpets from the of Tibetans have shocked the personal opinion of the history of ISBN 978-1786497871, £18.99 made in West and Central Java archival, textual and cartographical Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection apex of Safavid carpet production. world since 2009 by the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Precariously positioned between during the second half of the 19th records, as well as the latest by Aimee Froom, Walter Denny, Melanie Gibson These rarely seen works bring into immolating themselves. the Tibetan Region through China and India, Burma’s century, with many rare and archaeological discoveries, the et al. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, focus the remarkable variety of Following the stories of the never-before-seen photographs, population has suffered dictatorship, beautiful pieces from famous ateliers authors cast a singular historical ISBN 9780300247022, £65 techniques and innovations last princess of the region, of detailed interviews, and cultural natural disaster and the dark legacies of the day. This collection was trajectory for Singapore over the past This catalogue showcases an employed by Persian artists and Tibetans who experienced the analysis. The collection of of colonial rule. But when decades of presented to the public for the first seven centuries, animating its assortment of stunning works from artisans through the ages. struggle sessions of Mao’s photographs were taken by Woeser’s military dictatorship finally ended time at the Queen Sirikit Museum history like never before. one of the world’s most Cultural Revolution, of the father, and reveal how the Chinese and internationally beloved Nobel of Textiles in Bangkok in October distinguished private collections of Sufi Institutions: Handbook of Sufi Studies recent generations of monks government transformed the laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged 2018. Published to coincide with the In the Dragon’s Shadow: Persian art. Featuring more than edited by Alexandra Papas and townsfolk experiencing once-secluded Buddhist state into a from long years of house arrest, exhibition, the book contains a Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century 100 objects spanning many Brill, ISBN 9789004389076, Euro 249 renewed repression, Demick totally different country. hopes soared. As historian, former detailed catalogue of the collection by Sebastian Strangio. Yale University Press, centuries, from the eve of the This volume describes the social and paints a riveting portrait of diplomat, and presidential advisor, and is enhanced by rare archival ISBN 978-0300234039, £20 Islamic period in the 6th century to practical aspects of Islamic recent Tibetan history, From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey Thant Myint-U saw the cracks photographs of the king’s travels, the A timely look at the impact of the end of the 19th century, this mysticism (Sufism) across centuries opening a window onto by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche forming. In this insider’s diagnosis original signature notes indicating China’s booming emergence on the wide range of treasures demonstrates and geographical regions. Its authors Tibetan life today, and onto Penguin Life, ISBN 978-0241439272, £14.99 of a country at a breaking point, he the name of the pattern and who countries of Southeast Asia. Today, the remarkable depth and diversity seek to transcend ethereal, the challenges Tibetans face Lama Yeshe did not see a car until dissects how a singularly predatory was allowed to wear it, and the Southeast Asia stands uniquely of the Hossein Afshar Collection. essentialist and ‘spiritualising’ while locked in a struggle for he was fifteen years old. In his quiet economic system, fast-rising palace inventory tags. exposed to the waxing power of the Illustrated and accompanied by approaches to Sufism, on the one identity against one of the village, he and other children ran inequality, disintegrating state new China. Three of its nations essays from a group of hand, and purely pragmatic and most powerful countries in through fields with yaks and institutions, the impact of new social Thread and Fire: Textiles and Jewellery border China and five are directly internationally recognised scholars, materialistic explanations of its the world. mastiffs. The rhythm of life was media, the rise of China next door, from the Isles of Indonesia and Timor impacted by its claims over the the book’s selection includes an origins and history, on the other. anchored by the pastoral cycles. climate change and deep-seated by Linda S McIntosh. River Books, South China Sea. All dwell in the array of ceramic works, Covering five topics (Sufism’s feelings around race, religion and ISBN 978-6164510357, £40 lengthening shadow of its influence: Qur’an pages written in gold, economy, social role of Sufis, Sufi national identity all came together This is a journey through the economic, political, military, and precious inlaid metal wares, Continued on page 18 Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet: A Handbook on Ceremonial Objects to challenge the incipient centuries-old trade networks that cultural. As China seeks to restore and Ritual Furnishings in the Tibetan Temple democracy. Interracial violence developed across a group of its former status as Asia’s preeminent by Michael Henss. Arnoldsche Art Publishing, soared and a horrific exodus of archipelagos along the equator. Of power, the countries of Southeast Architecture of the Islamic northwest Africa ISBN 978-3897905672, £85 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya the 18,000 islands, more than 900 Asia face an increasingly stark and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 Tibetan Buddhist art is not only rich in figural icons refugees fixed international are permanently settled by over 360 choice: flourish within Beijing’s orbit by Jonathan M Bloom. Yale University Press, but also extremely diverse in its symbols and ritual or languish outside of it. Meanwhile, ISBN 9780300218701, £50 objects. This first systematic review is an abundantly as rival powers including the US Some of the most outstanding examples of world illustrated reference book on Tibetan ritual art that Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land take concerted action to curb architecture, such as the Mosque of Cordoba, by Razeen Sally. Juggernaut, ISBN 978-9353450601, £17.99 aids our understanding of its different types and forms, its sacred Chinese ambitions, the region has the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Clk ic here meanings and ceremonial functions. Covering 18 chapters, several Sri Lanka seemed like a version of paradise to emerged as an arena of heated Giralda tower in Seville, and the Alhambra Palace for more information hundred different implements are documented in detail, in many cases Razeen Sally as a child, but conflict was soon to strategic competition. Drawing on in Granada, belong to the Western Islamic tradition. This architectural for the first time and often in their various styles and iconographic follow, tearing the family apart and severing their more than a decade of on-the- style flourished for over a thousand years along the southern and forms: altar utensils and amulets, masks and mirrors, magic daggers bond with Sri Lanka. Return to Sri Lanka is the story ground experience, Strangio western shores of the Mediterranean, between Tunisia and and mandalas, torma sculptures and prayer objects, vajras and votive of a 21st-century reconciliation between Sally, now an explores the impacts of China’s rise Spain, from the 8th century through the 19th, blending new ideas tablets, sacrificial vessels and oracle crowns, stupas and spirit traps, academic and political adviser, and the land of his on Southeast Asia, the varied ways with local building practices from across the region. The book ritual vases, textiles, furniture, and symbolic emblems. These are birth. A travel memoir with deep political concerns, Return to Sri in which the countries of the region introduces readers to the full scope of this vibrant tradition, presenting accompanied by many historical and modern text sources, as well as Lanka is a book full of insight, from a writer who is a native, a tourist, are responding, and what it might both famous and little-known buildings in six countries in North rare recorded oral material from high-ranking Tibetan masters. both and neither. mean for the future balance of Africa and southern Europe. power in the Indo-Pacific. asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 18 Books Books 19

Ceramics of Iran Islamic Pottery in the Sarikhani Collection Fiction The Devil and the Dark Water Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Oliver Watson. Yale University Press, by Stuart Turton by Deepa Anappara. Chatto, ISBN 978-1784743093, £12/99 ISBN 9780300254280, £50 People from My Neighbourhood Raven Books, ISBN 978-1408889640, £16.99 Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, Featuring a broad selection of objects from one of by Hiromi Kawakami. Granta, It is 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest thinks he is smarter than his friend Pari (even though the most distinguished collections of Iranian art, ISBN 978-1846276989, £12.99 detective, is being transported from the Dutch East she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be this volume brings together over 1,000 years of In Kawakami’s super short ‘palm of Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one SUscribeb Persian Islamic pottery. With more than 500 the hand’ stories the world is never execution for a crime he may, or may not, have with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai to have access illustrations, authoritative technical treatises, and quite as it should be: a small child committed. Travelling with him is his loyal decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked to our archive Insights insightful commentary, the book assembles a collection of rarely seen lives under a sheet near his bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by of book reviews treasures from the Persian world and presents a collective history of its neighbour’s house for thirty years; innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the Thinking about subscribing? renowned ceramic tradition. Included among its comprehensive an apartment block leaves its visitors secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia. But no sooner sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station catalogue entries are numerous translations of the object’s inscriptions, with strange afflictions, from is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A at the end of the Purple Line. providing readers with a richer and more detailed understanding fast-growing beards to an ability to strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. of the cultural heritage from which these items are derived. channel the voices of the dead; an Livestock are slaughtered in the night. And then the passengers hear a In addition, the book contains new research and material from old man has two shadows, one terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them themselves in an elaborate game of Winter in Sochko previously unknown sites. docile, the other rebellious; two girls three unholy miracles. First: an impossible pursuit. Second: an cat and mouse as they race to by Elisa Shua Dusapin, named Yoko are locked in a bitter impossible theft. Third: an impossible murder. Could a demon be uncover what happened to her, Daunt Books, ISBN 978-1911547549, £9.99 rivalry to the death. responsible for their misfortunes? without revealing their own closely It is winter in Sokcho, a tourist town spaces, politics, and organisation), Mosque in Mecca; and the Soviet guarded secrets. When a final on the border between South and the volume shows that mystics have invasion of Afghanistan. Before this The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse showdown at the dam results in a North Korea. The cold slows been active socio-religious agents year, Saudi Arabia and Iran had by Seishi Yokomizo. Pushkin Vertigo, disused phone box. For years, people hands become as crooked as twigs, but mass tragedy, one of the guards is everything down. Bodies are red and who could skilfully adjust to the been working allies and twin pillars ISBN 978-1782275008 have travelled to visit the phone box, the satisfaction of hard physical labour convicted of murder and sent to raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond conditions of their time and place, of US strategy in the region, but the and 978-1782275039, £8.99 each to pick up the receiver and speak and earning money to support his family prison. For seven years, his son, the beach guns point out from the while also managing to forge an radical legacy of these events made Two novels by Seishi Yokomizo, the into the wind: to pass their messages proves intoxicating. Reading novels is an Sowon, lives in the shadow of his North s watchtowers. A young alternative way of living, worshiping them mortal enemies, unleashing a Agatha Christie of Japan, have been to loved ones no longer with us. escape for Yan, and he yearns to become a father’s shocking and inexplicable French Korean woman works as a and thinking. process that transformed culture, published in English for the first When Yui loses her mother and writer after hearing about a woman who crime. When Sowon receives a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. society, religion and geopolitics time almost four decades after his daughter in the tsunami, she is was allowed to remain in the city of package that promises to reveal at One evening, an unexpected guest Stealing from the Saracens: across the region for decades to death in 1981. Yokomizo’s work plunged into despair and wonders Harbin after publishing her first novel. last what really happened at Seryong arrives: a French cartoonist How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe come. Crossing seven countries over reflects the traditions of the ‘Golden how she will ever carry on. One day Caught between his obligations as a son Lake, he must confront a present determined to find inspiration in this by Diana Darke. C Hurst Co, 40 years, Ghattas demonstrates how Age’ of Western crime fiction from she hears of the phone box, and and a brother, and his longing for a new danger he never knew existed. desolate landscape. The two form an ISBN 978-1787383050, £25 this rivalry for religious and cultural the 1930s which also incorporate decides to make her own pilgrimage life, Yan eventually joins the army. uneasy relationship. When she agrees Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, supremacy has fed intolerance, many aspects of Japanese culture. there, to speak once more to the Chronicling the extraordinary lives of his Untold Night and Day to accompany him on trips to Europeans are increasingly suppressed cultural expression, In The Honjin Murders, the book people she loved the most. But when father and two uncles, as well as his own, by Bae Suah discover an authentic Korea, they airbrushing from history their cultural encouraged sectarian violence, opens in the winter of 1937, and the you have lost everything, the right the novel is a celebration of the power of Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-1787331600, £12.99 visit snowy mountaintops and debt to the Muslim world. But this birthed groups like Hezbollah and village of Okamura is abuzz with words can be the hardest thing to one family to hold together in the most For two years, twenty-eight-year-old dramatic waterfalls, and cross into legacy lives on in some of Europe’s ISIS and, ultimately, upended the excitement over the forthcoming find. Then she meets Takeshi, a punishing of circumstances. Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul’s North Korea. As she s pulled into his most recognisable buildings, from lives of millions. wedding of a son of the grand bereaved husband whose own only audio theatre for the blind. But vision and taken in by his drawings, Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses Ichiyanagi family. On the night of daughter has stopped talking in the Aria now the theatre is shutting down she strikes upon a way to finally of Parliament. This book reveals the The Nine Lives of Pakistan: the wedding, the Ichiyanagi wake of their loss. by Nazanine Hozar and Ayami’s future is uncertain. Her be seen. Arab and Islamic roots of Europe’s Dispatches from a Divided Nation household are woken by a terrible Penguin, ISBN 978-0241987667, £8.99 last shift completed and the theatre architectural heritage. The author by Declan Walsh, scream, followed by the sound of The Message In Iran, 1953, a driver named Behrouz closed for good, Ayami walks the Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 traces ideas and styles from vibrant Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1408868461, £20 eerie music. Death has come to by Mai Jia discovers an abandoned baby in an streets of the city with her former by Choo Nam-Joo Middle Eastern centres like The demise of Pakistan – a country Okamura, leaving no trace but a Apollo, ISBN 978-1789543032, £8.99 alleyway. When he adopts her, naming boss late into the night. Together Scribner, ISBN 978-1471184284, £12.99 Print edition Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo, via with a reputation for volatility, bloody samurai sword, thrust into At the height of the Second World her Aria, he has no idea how profoundly they search for a mutual friend who This best-seller helped launch Korea’s Muslim Spain, Venice and Sicily into brutality and radical Islam – is the pristine snow outside the house. War, Japan rules over China. In this fiery, blue-eyed orphan will shape his has disappeared. The following day, new feminist movement and follows A good, old-fashioned, Europe. She describes how medieval regularly predicted. But things rarely Soon, amateur detective Kosuke Hangzhou, a puppet government future. As she grows, Aria is torn at the request of that same friend, one woman’s psychic deterioration in crusaders, pilgrims and merchants turn out as expected, as renowned Kindaichi is on the scene to propped up by the Japanese wages between the three women fated to mother Ayami acts as a guide for a detective the face of the rigid misogyny she time-out read – delivered encountered Arab Muslim culture on journalist Declan Walsh knows investigate what will become a an underground war against the her: the wife of Behrouz, who beats her; novelist visiting from abroad. But in finds herself experiencing. to your door every month their way to the Holy Land; and well. Over a decade covering the legendary murder case. The second Communist resistance. Late one the wealthy widow Fereshteh, who offers the inescapable, all-consuming heat explores more recent artistic country, his travels took him from novel is set a decade later, when the night, five intelligence officers, her refuge but cannot offer her love, and of Seoul at the height of the interaction between Ottoman and the raucous port of Karachi to the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan employed as code breakers by the the impoverished Mehri, whose secrets summer, order gives way to chaos, Suncatcher Digital edition Western cultures, including Sir gilded salons of Lahore to the dies, and his family eagerly await the regime, are escorted to an isolated will shatter everything Aria thought she the edges of reality start to fray, and by Romesh Gunesekera Christopher Wren’s inspirations in the lawless frontier of Waziristan, reading of the will. But no sooner mansion outside the city. The secret knew about her life. Meanwhile, the the past intrudes on the present in Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781526610386, £8.99 When you are on the move and ‘Saracen’ style of Gothic architecture. encountering Pakistanis whose lives are its strange details revealed than a police are certain that one of them is winds of change are stirring in Tehran. increasingly disruptive ways. It is 1964. Ceylon is on the brink of want access to your issues in an offer a compelling portrait of this series of bizarre, gruesome murders a communist spy. None of them is Rumours are spreading of a passionate change. But Kairo is at a loose end. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the land of contradictions. begins. Detective Kindaichi must leaving until the traitor is unmasked. religious exile in Paris called Khomeini, School is closed, the government is instant Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East He meets a crusading lawyer who unravel the clan’s terrible secrets of It should be a straightforward case who seems to offer a new future for the in disarray, the press is under threat by Kim Ghattas. Wildfire/Henry Holt and Co, risks her life to fight for society’s forbidden liaisons, monstrous of sifting truth from lies. But as each country. In the midst of this tumult, Aria The Mountains and the religious right are flexing Print and digital edition ISBN 978-1472271136, £10.99 most marginalised, taking on cruelty, and hidden identities to find codebreaker spins a story that proves falls in love with an Armenian boy caught Sing their muscles. Kairo’s hard-working For decades, the question has everyone including the powerful the murderer, and lift the curse their innocence, what really on the wrong side of the revolution. by Ngyuen Phan mother blows off steam at her It’s the best of both worlds haunted the Arab and Muslim military establishment; an imperious wreaking its bloody revenge on happened is called into question Que Mai. One cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyite world, heard across Iran and Syria, chieftain spouting poetry at his the Inugamis. again and again. Seven Years of Darkness World, ISBN father grumbles over the state of the Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in desert fort; a roguish politician by You-Jeong Jeong 978-1786079503, nation between his secret flutters on Subscribe to our free newsletter the author’s home country of waging a mini-war against the Breasts and Eggs Three Brothers: Memories of My Family Little Brown, ISBN 978-1408712061, £14.99 £12.99 horseraces in faraway England. All Lebanon. When did the extremism, Taliban; and a charismatic business by Mieko Kawakami by Yan Lianke. Chatto & Windus, A girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a Ha Noi, 1972. Kairo wants to do is hide in his room To keep up to date intolerance and bloodletting of today tycoon who moves into politics and Picador, ISBN 978-1509898206, £14.99 ISBN 978-1784743154, £12.99 reservoir in a remote South Korean Hurng and her grandmother, and flick over second-hand westerns displace the region’s cultural promise seems to be riding high – till he On a hot summer’s day in a poor It is a hard but loving childhood. village. The police immediately begin Tran Dieu Lan, cling to one and superhero comics, or escape on Search our archives and diversity? In the book, Kim takes up the wrong cause. Lastly, suburb of Tokyo we meet three Yan’s family carve out a modest their investigation. At the same time, another in their improvised his bicycle and daydream. Then he Ghattas argues that the turning Walsh meets a spy whose orders women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her existence, though food is often so three men – Yongje, the girl’s father, and shelter as American bombs fall meets the magnetic teenage Jay, and Find a wealth of published articles on Asian and point in the modern history of the once involved following him, and older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s scarce they have to find edible bark two security guards at the nearby dam, around them. Her father and his whole world is turned inside out. Middle East can be located in the who might finally be able to answer teenage daughter Midoriko. and clay for sustenance. Working each of whom has something to hide mother have already left to A budding naturalist and a born Islamic World art on our website toxic confluence of three major the question that haunts him: why Makiko, an ageing hostess 16-hour shifts in a quarry, Yan’s about the night of her death – find fight in a war that is tearing not rebel, Jay keeps fish and traps birds events in 1979: the Iranian the Pakistanis suddenly expelled despairing the loss of her looks, has just her country but her family for an aviary he is building in the revolution; the siege of the Holy him from their country. travelled to Tokyo in search of breast apart. For Tran Dieu Lan, garden of his grand home. But his enhancement surgery. She is The Stationery Shop forced to flee the family farm Uncle Elvin, suave and worldly, is his accompanied by Midoriko, who has by Marjan Kamali. Gallery Books, ISBN 978-1982107499, £12.99 with her six children decades encourager. As Jay guides him from God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World: recently stopped speaking, finding Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the earlier as the Communist the realm of make believe into one of The Untold Story of Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire and the herself unable to deal with her own political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis government rose to power in hunting-guns and fast cars and Making of the Modern World changing body and her mother’s in kindly Mr Fakhri’s neighbourhood stationery shop, the North, this experience is introduces him to a girl, Niromi, by Alan Mikhail. Faber & Faber, ISBN 978-0571331932, £14.99 self-obsession. Her silence stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel- horribly familiar. Kairo begins to understand the price The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing dominates Natsu’s rundown coloured ink. Then Mr Fakhri, with a keen instinct Continued on page 20 intellectual fervour, geopolitical power, and apartment, providing a catalyst for for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent each woman to grapple with their favourite customer, handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520), who, own anxieties and their relationships justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry – and she loses her heart at once. The Mission House with the aid of his extraordinarily gifted mother, Gulbahar, hugely with one another. Eight years later, Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their by Carys Davies. Granta, ISBN 978-1783784301, £12.99 expanded the empire, propelling it onto the world stage. Aware of we meet Natsu again. She is now a favourite place in all of Tehran. A few short months later, on the eve of Fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life centuries of European suppression of Islamic history, Alan Mikhail writer and finds herself on a journey their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in Ooty, the hill centres Selim’s Ottoman Empire and Islam as the very pivots of global back to her native city, returning to violence erupts, a result of the coup d’etat that forever changes their station in South India. There he finds solace in life’s ASIAN ART history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher memories of that summer and her country’s future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows. For weeks, Roya simple pleasures, travelling by rickshaw around the Columbus’s voyages, which originated, in fact, as a Catholic ‘ jihad’ family’s past as she faces her own tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. With a small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a that would come to view Native Americans as somehow ‘Moorish’, uncertain future. sorrowful heart, she moves on – to college in California, to another mission house beside the local presbytery where the asianartnewspaper.com/subscribe the Protestant Reformation, the transatlantic slave trade, and the man, to a life in New England – until, more than 60 years later, an Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their dramatic Ottoman seizure of the Middle East and North Africa. The Phone Box at the Edge of the World accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask wing. The Padre is concerned for Priscilla’s future, and as Hilary’s Drawing on previously unexamined sources and written in gripping by Laura Imai Messina him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: friendship with the young woman grows, he begins to wonder whether detail, Mikhail’s ground-breaking account vividly recaptures Selim’s Manilla Press, ISBN 978-1786580399, £12.99 Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able his purpose lies in this new relationship. But religious tensions are #AsianArtPaper asianartnewspaper asianartnewspaper life and world. On a windy hill in Japan, in a to forget me? brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. garden overlooking the sea stands a Continued on page 16 asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 20 Books Exhibitions 21

of privilege and embarks on a journey sister she never knew she had: Lucia, of devastating consequence. Tokachi who has spent her life in a residential Rembrandt’s Orient: Millennium facility. Soon Grace sets up a new and West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century Low Forest: precarious life in this lush, edited by Ortrud Westheider, Josef Helfenstein, Bodo Brinkman by Jeet Thayil Pioneering melancholy wilderness, with Lucia, and Michael Philipp. Prestel, ISBN 978-791359632, £39.99 Faber, ISBN 978-0571356416, £14.99 a New Way the village housekeeper Mallika, the In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub Following the death of his wife, of Gardening drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in with Nature ever-multiplying litter of puppies. Africa, and the Levant, importing copious search of oblivion and a dangerous Here in Paramankeni, with its vacant amounts of foreign items that powerfully new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a by Dan Pearson. Filbert Press, bus stops colonised by flying foxes, its stimulated the imagination of numerous Dutch artists. This was glorious weekend of misadventure as ISBN 978-1999734541, £40 temples and step-wells shielded by notably the case with Rembrandt, whose curiosity and voraciousness as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic Twenty years ago, Dan Pearson canopies of teak and tamarind, where a collector were legendary in his time. Throughout his prolific career, city from its sleek eyries of high- was invited to make a garden at every dusk the fishermen line the he drew on Eastern influences in genres as diverse as history painting capital to the urine-stained streets, the 240-hectare Tokachi beach smoking and mending their and portraiture, including depictions in which he himself adopted The Conjuror’s Trick encountering a cast with their own Millennium Forest in nets, Grace feels that she has come to Oriental styled attire. The book explores the inventive ways in which An Interpretive History of Paper Money in India stories to tell, but none of whom Hokkaido, Japan. Part of the the very end of the world. Rembrandt and his contemporaries accommodated Eastern imagery Ullis – his faculties ever distorted – is intention was to entice city into their own repertoire, set within the wider context of Holland’s by Bazil Shaikh quite sure he can trust. dwellers to reconnect with Midnight at Malabar House rapidly expanding commercial and cultural exchange with its non- By Vaseem Khan nature and improve land that European trading partners. “Weaving in perspectives of finance, history, public policy Amnesty had been lost to intensive Hodder, ISBN 978-1473685468, £16.99 by Aravind Adiga agriculture and this was As India celebrates the arrival of a and art, this book brings alive over two hundred years of Picador, ISBN 978-1509879052, £8.99 achieved along with much momentous new decade, Inspector British empire drove unexpected Todd Wassel fled a normal life just note issue in India.” Danny, Dhananjaya Rajaratnam, is more. By tuning into the Persis Wadia stands vigil in the change. The book insists on the after university. Over half a decade The artist with Prosperous Descendants (2016) © Wu Ching an undocumented immigrant in physical and cultural essence of basement of Malabar House, home to significance of the environment; the later he is lost in Japan. Convinced Y.V. Reddy, Sydney, denied refugee status after the place and applying a light the city’s most unwanted unit of police waves of the Bay of Bengal or the there was more to life, he returns to he has fled from his native touch in terms of cultivation, officers. Six months after joining the Tasman Sea were the context for this the one place he found answers years Trea sures Former Governor, Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, this world-class designer force she remains India’s first female story. Sivasundaram tells how before: the ancient Shikoku Henro Reserve Bank of India living out of a grocery storeroom, for created a remarkable place police detective, mistrusted, side-lined revolution, empire and counter-revolt pilgrimage. Between the 88 in Gold & Jade Order your print/digital copy at three years he has been trying to which has its heart in Japan’s and now consigned to the midnight crashed in the global South. Naval Buddhist temples, he finds help www.marg-art.org create a new identity for himself. long-held respect for nature shift. And so, when the phone rings to war, imperial rivalry and oceanic from a wandering ascetic hiding This exhibition highlights the And now, with his beloved vegan and its head in contemporary report the murder of prominent trade had their parts to play, but so from the Freemasons; naked Yakuza work of two of Taiwan’s girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden ecological planting design. The English diplomat Sir James Herriot, did hope, false promise, rebellion, trying to shake him down; a scam premier artists: Wu Ching, a accent and highlights in his hair, he bold, uplifting sweep of the the country’s most sensational case knowledge and the pursuit of artist pilgrim; and a vengeful monk. sculptor who creates intricate is as close as he has ever come to Meadow Garden mixes garden falls into her lap. As 1950 dawns and being modern. He draws on over 20 years in Japan carvings which he translates living a normal Australian life. But plants with natives while the India prepares to become the world’s to retell his epic journey through the to pure gold using a classic then one morning, Danny learns a undulating landforms of the largest republic, Persis, accompanied Walking in Circles: contradictions of contemporary lost wax technique; and female client of his has been Earth Garden bring sculptural by Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Finding Happiness in Lost Japan Japan while overcoming the forces Huang Fu-shou, whose skill murdered. When Danny recognises connection with the mountains Blackfinch, finds herself investigating by Todd Wassel that keep us from living a truly for jade carving allows him to a jacket left at the murder scene, he beyond. Under the skilful a case that is becoming more political Jizo Press, ISBN 978-1735311609, £11.95 happy life. create impossibly delicate believes it belongs to another of his custodianship of Midori by the second. Navigating a country forms. The gold that Wu clients, a doctor with whom he Shintani, the garden has and society in turmoil, Persis must Ching works is a malleable, knows the woman was having an evolved beautifully to reflect find a way to solve the murder – Mapping the Great Game: brilliant yellow that is affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted principles that lie at the heart of whatever the cost. Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-century Asia associated with enlightenment with a choice: come forward with his Japanese culture: observation of by Riaz Dean. Casemate Publishers, ISBN 978-1612008141, £20 in the Buddhist tradition; knowledge about the crime and risk seasonal changes, practical The Case of the Reincarnated Client Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game Huang Fu-shou carves in A Tribute to Autumn, series 1 © Huang Fu-shou being deported, or say nothing, and tasks carried out with care and by Tarquin Hall. Severn House Publishers, played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia both jadeite and nephrite. let justice go undone? Over the an awareness of the inter- ISBN 978-0727888785, £25 in the 19th century was India, most of the intrigue On show are 27 jade Alongside these works are 17 thousands of components in course of a single day, evaluating the connectedness of all living When a young woman comes forward and action took place along its northern frontier in carvings by Huang Fu-Shou gold sculptures by Wu Ching all sizes, which is made by weight of his past, his dreams for the things. This book allows us all claiming to be the reincarnation of Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Maps and in a surprising range of – in Reminiscences of Rustic using the ‘oxyhydrogen future, and the unpredictable, often to experience something of the Riya Kaur, a wife and mother who knowledge of the enemy were crucial elements in Britain’s struggle to colours. The focus in on Pleasures, a work which took welding’ technique at a high absurd reality of living invisibly and Tokachi effect, gain expert vanished during the bloody 1984 defend the ‘jewel in the crown.’ The Great Trigonometrical Survey of nature, often carved from a over three years to complete, temperature before being Olivia Sand undocumented, he must wrestle insights into how to plant anti-Sikh riots, Puri is dismissive. He India had been founded in the 18th century with the aim of creating a single stone, with fish where over 500 ants and assembled. with his conscience and decide if a gardens that feel right for their is busy enough dealing with an irate detailed map of the country. While most people today are readily able springing from water, insects various insects swarm in a • From 12 December person without rights still has location, and reconnect with matrimonial client whose daughter is to identify the world’s highest mountain, few know of the man, George weightlessly clinging to flurry of activity. In Prosperous until 30 May 2021, responsibilities. the land and wildlife that complaining about her groom’s Everest, after whom it was named, or the accomplishment that earned blades of grass, and stone Descendants, Wu Ching Treasures in Gold & Jade: Masterworks from Taiwan is CONTEMPORARY surround us. thunderous snoring. Puri’s indomitable him this singular honour. Under his leadership, the Survey of India bending with litheness of recalls his childhood Burnt Sugar Mummy-ji, however, is adamant the mapped the Great Arc, which was then lauded as ‘one of the greatest fabric each push the memories playing under the presented by the Bowers by Avni Doshi. Hamish Hamilton, client is genuine. How else could she works in the whole history of science,’ though it cost more in monetary boundaries of what is possible melon vines. They grow along Museum and the Taiwan ISBN 978-0241441510, £14.99 gradually untangles the knot of so accurately describe under hypnosis terms and human lives than many contemporary Indian wars. with the rigid medium. bamboo scaffolds made from Academy in Los Angeles, VOICES In her youth, Tara was wild. She memory and myth that bind two Riya Kaur’s life and final hours? Much of the work of the Survey was undertaken by native Indians, Poems by the artist bronze, with an array of bugs Bowers Museum. Santa Anna, abandoned her arranged marriage to women together, revealing the truth Forced into an alliance with his known as Pundits, who were trained to explore, spy out and map accompany each artwork. on top. This piece consists of California, bowers.org From the Asian and Islamic join an ashram, took a hapless artist that lies beneath. mother that tests his beliefs and high Central Asia and Tibet. They did this at great personal risk and with for a lover, rebelled against every blood pressure as never before, it is meagre resources, while travelling entirely on foot. They would be the Art Worlds social expectation of a good Indian Small Days and Nights only by delving into the past the help first to reveal the mysteries of the forbidden city of Lhasa, and discover woman – all with her young child in by Tishani Doshi of his reincarnated client that Puri can the true course of Tibet’s mighty Tsangpo River. They were the Rembrandt’s Orient tow. Years on, she is an old woman Bloomsbury ISBN 978-1526603739, £8.99 hope to unlock the truth. greatest group of explorers the world has seen in recent history – yet with a fading memory, mixing up her Escaping her failing marriage, Grace they remain the classic unsung heroes of the British Raj. The story of For someone who, for all we settings of biblical histories, maid’s wages and leaving the gas on has returned to Pondicherry to Miscellaneous these extraordinary pioneers who explored much of Asia during the know, never left his native one of his favourite genres. all night, and her grown-up daughter cremate her mother. Once there, she 19th century to fill in large portions of its map, and spy out the region country, Rembrandt Several self-portraits show is faced with the task of caring for a finds herself heir to an unexpected Waves Across the South: for military reasons is often forgotten, but Riaz Dean’s vivid account of Harmensz. van Rijn had a the artist in exotic costumes. mother who never seemed to care for inheritance. First, there is the strange A New History of Revolution and Empire their exploits, their adventurous spirit and their tenacity in the face of strikingly broad horizon. His copies of miniatures her. This is a poisoned love story. But pink house, blue-shuttered, out on a by Sujit Sivasundaram great adversity, all set within the context of the Great Game and the As an artist, collector, and created at the court of the not between lovers – between mother spit of the wild beach, haunted by the William Collins, ISBN 978-0007575541, £25 Survey of India, will finally bring them the attention they deserve. citizen, he came into contact Great Mughals were a tribute and daughter. Sharp as a blade and rattle of fishermen in their After revolutions in America and with artefacts, objects of to Asian creativity and taste Clk ic here laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar catamarans. And then there is the France, a wave of tumult coursed the utility, and humans from all without precedent in Dutch to order this book globe from 1790 to 1850. It was a parts of the known world. art. Last but not least, he was moment of unprecedented change and Underground Asia: Rembrandt’s curiosity about an eager consumer of Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, violence especially for indigenous Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire everything foreign and his Japanese paper, which he and History’s First Global Manhunt peoples. By 1850, vibrant public debate by Tim Harper. Allen Lane, ISBN 978-1846145629, £35 insatiable collector’s appetite liked to use for his etchings. by Steven Johnson. Riverhead, ISBN 978-0593187616, £14.99 between colonised communities had The end of Europe’s empires has so often been seen as were legendary even in his The exhibition is not Henry Avery was the 17th century’s most notorious exploded in port cities. Yet in the a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper’s lifetime and part and parcel Portrait of a Man in Oriental limited to Rembrandt’s pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly midst of all of this, Britain struck out new book the narrative is very different: it shows how of his singular creative Clothing (1635) oeuvre, in addition to works inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The by sea and established its supremacy empires were fundamentally undermined from below. genius. Amsterdam, the by Rembrandt Harmensz by his colleagues and British government offered enormous bounties for his over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, centre of his life, was the van Rijn (1606-1669), students, the show includes capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson overtaking the French and Dutch as global travel and the widespread use of French and English, young perfect place for a man of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. publications and other sources argues that Avery’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of well as other rivals. Cambridge radicals from across Asia were able to communicate in ways simply not such boundless interests: the Photo: Julian Salinas that illustrate the The first comprehensive book to cover the Asian a new model for the global economy. It focuses on one key event - the historian Sujit Sivasundaram brings available before. These clandestine networks stretched to the heart of Dutch East and West India contemporary vision of the and Islamic contemporary art scenes featuring more attack of an Indian treasure ship by Avery and his crew - and the together his work in far-flung archives the imperial metropolises: to London, to Paris, to the Americas, but Companies had their one of the most consequential Orient. Placing Rembrandt’s surprising repercussions across time and space. Johnson uses the across the world and the best new also increasingly to Moscow. They created a secret global network headquarters and home port strands in this constellation: work in this broader context than 80 interviews and 250 color illustrations extraordinary story of Henry Avery and his crimes to explore the academic research in this remarkably which was for decades engaged in bitter fighting with imperial police here, as did other trading the Orient – an umbrella reveals both the ways in emergence of the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected creative book. This book traces the forces. They gathered in the great hubs of Asia - Calcutta, Singapore, partnerships. In the 17th term for diverse Eastern which his take on the East Available for purchase at bookstores and on skira.net planet ruled by nations and corporations. The book crosses disciplinary origins of our times from the Batavia, Hanoi, Tokyo, Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong - and century, the city was a true non-European cultures rather was typical of his time and boundaries to recount its history: the chemistry behind the invention of perspective of indigenous and plotted with ceaseless ingenuity, both through persuasion and cultural melting pot. Legates than a well-defined what set his perspective on its gunpowder; the innovations in navigation that enabled the age of non-European people in the Indian terrorism, the end of the colonial regimes. Many were caught and and merchants from far-flung geographic designation— cultures apart from those of exploration; the cultural history of pirates; the biographical history of and Pacific Oceans. From Aboriginal killed or imprisoned, but others would go on to rule their newly places were a daily sight in fired Rembrandt’s his contemporaries. Avery and his crew; the rise of the Mughal dynasty; and the Australians to Parsis and from independent countries. Drawing on an array of new sources, the turns the streets of the young imagination throughout his • Until 14 February, 2021, commercial ambition of the East India Company. Mauritians to Malays, people asserted upside-down our understanding of 20th-century empire. Dutch Republic. career. It inspired the painter Kunstmuseum Basel, their place and their future as the The exhibition focuses on as has he envisioned the kunstmuseumbasel.ch asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 22 Exhibitions Islamic Arts 23

Revealing Krishna Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain

At Cleveland, this is the first Krishna Lifting 7th century. At the same time, Islamic Arts Diary exhibition dedicated to the Mount Govardhan, Southeast Asian people were art of one of the earliest major circa 600, beginning to adopt religious Hindu sites in Southeast southern Cambodia, art, texts, and ritual practices Asia, Phnom Da (Stone Takeo Province, from India, reconceived for Mountain), established Phnom Da, their own purposes. In the By Lucien de Guise sentimental about than Monet and around 1,500 years ago. pre-Angkorian period Mekong River delta of Matisse. Brooklyn still managed to Through a series of refined (600–802). southern Cambodia, which B uy, Sell, or Hold? sell these big names to ward off Will the Israeli government show mercy and immersive digital sandstone; was a centre of political power Last month’s star attraction in this financial collapse while the towards the LA Mayer Museum of experiences, the exhibition height 244 cm, until the 700s, control of column was a sale that ended up not Baltimore Museum was prevented Islamic Art? presents the Cleveland The Cleveland floodwaters meant economic happening when it was supposed to. from selling what is, in America at Museum of Art’s Museum of Art, success. The powerful image This was not the fault of Covid-19, least, the hottest property of all: wonder how many art lovers would monumental sandstone John L. Severance of Krishna holding up Mount Rama’s wedding with Sita, folio from a Ramayana series, but meddling politicians instead. 20th-century American masters. be bothered now with the minutiae sculpture, Krishna Lifting Fund Govardhan to shield his unknown artist in Lakhnau, India, Uttar Pradesh, circa 1775, Sotheby’s announced the auction Clyfford Still and Brice Marden of any city in the Muslim world. At Mount Govhardhan, in the followers from destructive Collection Alice Boner, Museum Rietberg was to be moved from October to were withdrawn. the time, their fascination was context of the landscape and deluge held special relevance November but at the time of writing One category that museum immense. The painting was pre-sold sacred space from which it to the population of this it was unclear whether the selected trustees get even less worked up to a prosperous wool merchant, who came. In honour of its most region. In the exhibition, Perspectives works from the LA Mayer Institute about than Islamic art is Orientalist in turn was offered the astonishing recent transformation, the cinematic projections of for Islamic Art would be on the paintings. Only in France are works sum of £10,000 for it. He declined, newly restored Cleveland 360-degree video with Between the 15th and 19th again in the course of the block at all. It seems that the by the likes of J-L Gerome seen as as he loved the work so much. Krishna is shown alongside Listen surround sound transport centuries, space and following centuries. Through President of Israel took exception to essential heritage. Christie’s, In November 2020, it also had an nine related masterworks of to the history of this visitors to the canal ways of architecture in Indian the increased encounter with these mostly duplicate works being London, this month is selling a part impressive estimate attached. From stone sculpture on loan from sculpture narrated by the Mekong delta to see how miniature painting shifted and knowledge of European sold. Although the museum needs of British heritage that will arouse £3-5 million is a large sum for a Cambodia and France. The Sonya Rhie pilgrims journeyed by boat to from providing a mere art, different kinds of the money to stay afloat, it is not no interest from the local authorities Victorian work. It is certain it will significance of the mountain- Quintanilla, Curator of the site where Krishna and his backdrop to incorporating a perspective gradually found known whether the Israeli because they have probably never not be an art-loving northern mill raising episode from India’s Indian and Southeast counterparts were worshiped. unique combination of their way into the repertoire of government will do anything to heard of the artist and care little owner or wool trader who buys it myth of the superhuman Asian Art, along with • Until 30 January, 2021, multiple perspectives. This Indian miniature painters. help. It is, of course, Muslim about the subject matter. The this time around. Whilst interest in child-god Krishna reached a videos on Krishna and Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, kind of multi experience of Parallel perspective, important heritage that is up for sale. For once, Bezestein Bazaar of El Khan Khalil, Middle Eastern daily life is high point between 5th and early Cambodian art clevelandart.org perspective allowed viewers to above all in architecture, and the authorities have taken an interest Cairo by John Frederick Lewis was negligible in the West, it is building immerse themselves in the central perspective began being in this although the museum is a an important painting in its day, up in the region that inspired works scenes and get a grasp of used in Indian miniature private institution. The purpose of back in the 1870s. There is an such as this. Lewis’ paintings Mari Katayama objects and aspects that would painting to capture spatiality raising the funds was to foster admirable amount of detail about it provide a remarkable view of lives FIONA TAN Bystander #016 not be visible from a one-point from the mid-17th century cross-cultural dialogue and in the catalogue essay written by that are often humble and (2016) perspective. In the art of the onwards, but often in a highly understanding. Are these perhaps Briony Llewellyn, the supreme unglamorous. This bazaar is no With The Other Hand by Mari Katayama Indian sub-continent, the creative mode which, on the not of much concern to the authority on Lewis. So popular was harem filled with odalisques. It is © Mari Katayama history of perspective took a one hand, took into account government? this work when it was exhibited at almost entirely men, without even a Gray Glass (2020) different turn. In the 12th local habits of viewing, while, Meanwhile, many other the Royal Academy in 1874, the donkey to give it some sentimental by Fiona Tan, three-channel century, bodies were on the other, maintaining institutions have been de- newspapers were full of reviews interest. It is still a relatively faithful ultra-high-definition video represented in perspective conventional artistic practices accessioning due to the current lauding Lewis’ abilities. The record, from a time before colour installation. Video (black and space and granted pronounced and existing traditions. visitor-unfriendly climate. The Illustrated London News described it photography, by an artist who lived white, stereo sound), still. plasticity by using fine colour • Until 14 March, 2021, Brooklyn Museum got away with it as, ‘wonderful as illustrations of the life. Lewis immersed himself so Commissioned by the Museum gradations, but this kind of Museum Rietberg, Zurich, while Baltimore did not. None of Cairene life, manners, habits, much in local ways, it’s likely that he der Moderne Salzburg. With spatiality went out of fashion rietberg.ch these involved Islamic works, which One of JF Lewis’ most important works, The Bezestein Bazaar of El Khan Khalil, costumes, and architecture in a also inserted his own portrait in support from Mondrian Fund, the public tends to be less Cairo, recently came up for sale at Christie’s, London thousand minutiae’. One has to this painting. NL, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, ALI BANISADR / More than the Middle East r iSD Factor Front and back Peter Freeman Inc., New York, in the Mid West Another US institution that is of a sweater by Wako Works of Art, Tokyo MATRIX 185 Many of the great museum including those societies in bringing Islamic culture to the Azzedine Alaïa, MARI KATAYAMA collections of Islamic art were the Islamic heartlands that fore is the Rhode Island School 2005, In co-operation with the than the commonly formed in the 19th century. look down on manifestations of Design. This is a revered at the Rhode Austrian Museum der acknowledged ones. Through Home Again Those supposedly staid from regions such as place of learning that has been Island School of Moderne Salzburg, the her work, and on a broader Victorians were more forward Southeast Asia and the around since 1877. Like so Design Kunsthalle Krems is showing scale, she is hoping to trigger Japanese artist Mari Katayama (b 1987, Japan) came to looking than many of their less-Arab parts of Africa. many other locations in America, a mid-career retrospective of an individual as well as a attention during the last Biennale in Venice where a series of modern counterparts. This is one of those rare it has a long interest in the the multi-media artist Fiona collective reflection. Besides her photographs was shown at the Arsenale. Working in the America could be going exhibitions to put things Muslim world. This is apparent the case of an Egyptian textile as her favourite designer, so he Tan (b 1966). Internationally showcasing earlier works, form of self-portraits, the artist does not shy away from through a creative renaissance right. Showing how in the latest exhibition, It Comes fragment, wonderfully preserved must have been remarkable. known for her films, videos both exhibitions display including her full body in her pieces, turning into an advantage with a more artistically aware multicultural the city of in Many Forms: Islamic Art from in the low humidity of that The Islamic element is not so and installations, her work recent projects such as Archive an illness that strongly impacted her life. Suffering from a rare administration on the way, Minneapolis has become, the the Collection. From the school’s region. At the more clear, but Azzedine’s work does brings together aesthetic (2019) at the Kunsthalle congenital illness, Mari Katayama had to have some of her but it would be hard to rival MiA has enlisted the help of vast archives comes a huge contemporary end of the fit in with the diversity that is on features through a Krems, as well as the specially limbs amputated when she was still a child. As a result, her the days of the Robber the Somali Museum of variety of objects to show that spectrum is a women’s jacket by show. There is lots of sociological lens. Indeed, over commissioned piece photographs are based on a sophisticated mise-en-scène, where Barons. A city such as Minnesota. I wonder how Islam is far from being a Azzedine Alaïa. Although I have information about migration, the years, Fiona Tan has kept Grey Glass (2020) at the she is endorsing numerous personalities, with her body blurring Minneapolis ended up with many cities outside Somalia monolithic culture. Most exciting to confess to knowing almost diasporas and cross-cultural questioning decisions, Museum der Moderne into the background through outfits she has created. With the Minneapolis Institute of have any such institutions. In for lovers of fashion is that there nothing of this Tunisian prodigy, exchange. investigating relevant issues, Salzburg. Olivia Sand simple means, Mari Katayama is making a clear statement, Art (MiA), which is still this case, the two museums White Vase, 2016, will be a number of clothing he was a huge phenomenon in • It Comes in Many Forms: highlighting aspects that have • Until 14 February, 2021, at questioning our standards when it comes to beauty and trying harder than most to have come together to use a by Khaled Ben Slimane. items on display. These go back fashion before dying three years Islamic Art from the Collection remained hidden. Exploring Kunsthalle Krems, kunsthalle. challenging the notion of handicap. With a lot of will power engage with these diverse smallish number of objects Glazed ceramic. as far as the 12th century, in ago. Victoria Beckham cited him ends 6 June 2021 issues such as memory, time, at; and until 21 February, and imagination, she has created a striking body of work that forms of art. Its latest from the MiA collection to Gift of funds from Tamara and history, she encourages 2021, at Museum der Moderne, cannot be overlooked by the viewer. Olivia Sand exhibition is Khatt Islami: demonstrate the marvels of and Michael Root and the the audience to consider Salzburg, Austria, • From 8 January to 28 February, 2021, Red (2020) by Ali Banisadr, oil on linen. Sacred Scripts from Islamic calligraphy. Norman Gabrick Endowment Doris’ Day Continues alternative points of view museumdermoderne.at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, mep-fr.org Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery, New York Africa. There are textiles, blades for African Art About as far from Rhode Island Let us see whether this has This combines two of the and a vase by a contemporary as you can get, while still being in suddenly become achievable. In order to provide an insight his work. Born in Iran in 1968 least understood – to Western ceramicist. For me, the most the Qur’an. There was a time, the US, is Hawaii. This is where Probably not before the not only into the work of Ali and based in New York, Ali audiences – cultural glorious items from Islamic before the arrival of paper, one of the most remarkable exhibition ends, which is Strange Attractors Banisadr (b 1976), but also Banisadr’s work provides a phenomena in existence. The Africa are the writing boards when the whole Islamic world collections of Islamic art has been 31 December 2020. into his creative process, the bird’s-eye view of our present Sub-Saharan form of Islam is that are still used for children would have used these housed for decades. The Kamran Samimi Tate St Ives presents Strange Attractors, the UK’s museum is relying on a most world, echoing the sounds, especially neglected, to practise the written form of wooden boards. They can be The ocean-side home of the late exhibition is a more conventional largest exhibition to date by South Korean artist interesting approach: events, energies that surround wiped clean after use, until Doris Duke is the idyllic setting Kamran Samimi, artist-in- show, being a solo by Shangri La Haegue Yang. Yang is renowned for creating presenting Ali Banisadr’s us. Receptive to what is the day the students get the for Shangri La, which has been residence at Doris Duke’s artist-in-residence Kamran immersive environments from a diverse range of paintings, with the artist also happening in the outside writing absolutely correct. closed for many months due to Shangri La Samimi. He explores instances materials. Her sculptures and installations often use curating the museum’s world, he is trying to put a The boards are then kept in Covid-19. This does not mean of change, transformation, and industrially made objects, interwoven with Matrix Gallery, bringing certain distance between the that state. Needless to say, that Shangri La has given up on The answer is Kamran the passage of time. His works labour-intensive and craft-based processes. These Wchat together pieces that have events and himself, attempting they go beyond the obvious exhibitions though. At the Samimi: In Stillness and silently present the question: processes reflect pagan cultures and their deep a preview of caught his artistic interest. to translate them in an needs of education; they work Honolulu Museum of Art there American Muslim Futures. The What may happen in and during connection with various seasonal rituals in relation Strange His selection illustrates his objective way. A testimonial of as protective amulets too. Just is currently one project created by latter is actually an online apparent emptiness? The artist to natural phenomena. The exhibition’s title is a Attractors openness towards other the various circumstances of in case all of this seems a bit Shangri La. There is another exhibition of work that pairs the explores how in-between spaces concept taken from mathematics and relates to cultures, other centuries, and our time, for better and for too visual, the MiA has also online. The concern of both creativity of visual and are full of meaning, expanses of complex patterns of behaviour in chaotic natural Sonic other artists. In addition, the worse. Olivia Sand brought in Sufi singing so institutions before the recent performing artists with the hidden possibility, and moments systems. Taking this theory as a starting point, Intermediates museum has also set up at • Until 14 February, 2021, there is something for election was expressed clearly: ‘A conviction of civil rights to see connections between Yang’s exhibition creates an environment in which (2020) by playlist compiled by the artist Wadsworth Atheneum Museum everyone who visits with an global pandemic. An economic advocates to realise new civic things. He has been given more uncanny and seemingly disparate ideas, cultures, Haegue Yang. in order to show how sounds of Art, Hartford, open mind. crisis. A national reckoning with futures where all Americans live time for this exploration as the relations and time periods coexist. Photo: from the music he listens to Connecticut, The admirable simplicity of the Sacred Scripts exhibition in • Exhibition ends racism. Where do we go from free from hate and exhibitions doesn’t end till • Until 3 May, 2021 at Tate St Ives, Cornwall, tate.org Nick Ash while painting translate into thewadsworth.org Minneapolis, with writing boards prominently displayed 1 August 2021 here? What is America’s future?’. discrimination. August next year. asian art | winter 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper asian art | winter 2020 Asian Art hires logo 15/8/05 8:34 am Page 1

ASIAN ART TheTHE newspaperNEWSPAPER FORfor COLLECTORS, collectors, DEALERS, dealers, MUSEUMS museums AND and GALLERIES galleries • NOVEMBER• june 20052020 • £5.00/US$10/€10£5.00/US$8/€10 AUCTION RECORD FOR HOKUSAI’S GREAT WAVE

‡ e iconic Japanese print e G r e a t ‡ is series revived Hokusai’s career (Kanbara yoru no yuki), circa 1834, Wave ruled the waves in Christie’s after personal challenges of the late from the series Fifty-three Stations of New York September sale of Japanese 1820s. ‡ e Great Wave, with its use the Tokaido. and Korean Art. ‡ e work achieved of deep perspective and imported Additionally, modern and $1,110,000 against a low estimate of Prussian blue pigment, re§ ects how contemporary works performed with $150,000 and set a world auction Hokusai adapted and experimented strong results including Choo record for a print by the artist. Two with European artistic style. On this (Conspicuousness), from 1969, by other famous prints by the artist, famous print, whose o© cial title is Morita Shiryu (1912-1998) that commonly known as the Red Fuji, or Under the Well of the Great Wave at realized $137,500, against an estimate Fine Wind, Clear Skies (Gaifu kaisei), Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), of $50-70,000. Jigen (Manifestation) sold for $337,500 (est $100-200,000), Hokusai used less than 10 colours: he by Kato Gizan (b 1968), a carved and Storm Below the Summit (Sanka was ingenious in the use of lines and wooden sculpture of just over 110 cm hakuu), from the same series, published in the construction of an e ective was also popular and sold for late 1831, realized $137,500, against composition similarly to a $312,500, against an estimate of an estimate of $60-80,000. Two other contemporary commercial poster, ($30-40,000). Hokusai lots sold on or over $100,000, moreover, he exploited the newly Featured Korean works included a New Year’s Day in the Yoshiwara imported brilliant Prussian blue blue and white porcelain jar with achieved $125,000 (est $100- (Berurin ai) to capture and surprise three worthies playing weiqi, Joseon 200,000) and Namichidori (Plovers the public. dynasty that sold for $750,000; and above Waves), a set of 12 prints, sold Other lots that performed well in Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai an eight-panel screen from the circle for $100,000 (est $80-120,000). this Christie’s sale o included an pair (1760-1849), woodblock print from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji, of Kim Hongdo (1745-1806), Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760-1849) of six-panel folding screens (byobu) by 25.7 x 38.1 cm, sold for $1,100,000 at Christie’s New York on 22 September, Hunting Scene, that achieved most famous work was created when Kano Tsunenobu (1636-1713), 2020, achieving a world auction record for the artist $930,000 against a low estimate of he was about seventy and is from the Chrysanthemums Blooming in a Garden, $100,000. series irty-Six Views of Mt Fuji ink, colour, gofun, gold and gold leaf tailed Rooster, ink, lacquer and gold on sold for $35,000 (est $20-40,000). ‡ e sale totalled $8,475,000 with (published around 1831-33). Mt Fuji on paper that sold for $175,000. paper (1854-1936), which sold for Also on o er were prints by Utagawa 82% sold by lot and 84% sold by value. and its wider spiritual signi– cance Several paintings by Shibata Zheshin US$40,000 (est US$15-25,000) Hiroshige (1797-1858), whose top • For more news from the New York was a model for Hokusai in his quest (1807-1891) also performed well, along with Waterfall, a hanging scroll, o ering realized $106,250 (est $18- September sales, see the auction pages for immortality during his later years. including the hanging scroll Long- ink and light colour on paper, which 22,000) for Evening Snow at Kanbara in this issue.

NEWS IN BRIEF Inside 2 Profi le: the all-round artist ARTES MUNDI PRIZE Izumi Kato Artes Mundi 9 will take place from 13 February 5 Sony Landcsape Photographer 2021 to 6 June 2021 in Wales, across three venues, of the Year, 2020 National Museum Cardi , Chapter and g39. For this 6 Hamra Abbas, one of the edition the winner of the Artes Mundi 9 Prize will artists taking part in be announced ahead of the exhibition opening on 11 the new Asia Soceity Triennale February, instead of towards the end of the exhibition in New York as in previous years. Artes Mundi presents the UK’s 8 Hokusai: Mad About Painting leading international contemporary art prize and is 9 The recently discovered an important arbiter of cultural exchange between Hokusai drawings now in the the UK and the international visual arts community. British Museum, London ‡ e Artes Mundi 9 Shortlist includes: Firelei Báez 10 Momoyama: Artistic Traditions (Dominican Republic), Dineo Seshee Bopape (South in a Turbulent Century, Africa), Meiro Koizumi (Japan), Beatriz Santiago in Tokyo Muñoz (Puerto Rico), Prabhakar Pachpute (India) 12 Seeing Japanese beauty and Carrie Mae Weems (USA). through woodblock prints, in Paris MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE 14 Edo Avant-Garde, OF ART a documentary fi lm ‡ e Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has unveiled by Linda Hoagland P r o fi l e 15 Masterpieces from Kyoto P r o fi l e 2 its redesigned Himalayan and South and Southeast 3 Asian galleries last month, marking the – rst major 16 From the Archives: Dogu 17 Zaido, Yukari Chikura dicovers AAN: Your practice is quite refresh of these spaces in more than 20 years. With CONTACT US I manage to accomplish this result an ancient Japanesevery ritual strong response, and I believe challenging, as you essentially work New Light: Mia’s Reinstalledwithout Himalayan, intentionally South,wanting it. there is a bond with these pieces. It is The Asian Art Newspaper with what could be called the 18 Tempus Fugit, in Florida Vol 24 Issue 1 the same with the work of Francis fundamentals of art: line, form, and and Southeast Asian Art GalleriesAAN: Within features your practice, collection with Published by 20 Exhibitions Bacon.  ese are paintings one can Asian Art Newspaper Ltd, colour. Would you agree? highlights – such as a recentlypainting, conserved sculpture, 1,000-year-and installation, truly qualify as interesting works and London IK: In fact, at the time, I did not what do you consider the actual 22 Auctions, Gallery Shows,I feel close Fair a¯ nities with these IZUMI KATO old Indian sculpture of Shivastarting Nataraja point of –your commingled practice? have any precise direction, or plan, 23 Islamic Arts Diary artists. Without sounding EDITOR/PUBLISHER IK: Sarah Callaghan when it came to making art. Today, with new acquisitions on view for e startingthe – pointrst time. is always pretentious, perhaps I am the The Asian Art Newspaper however, I have a better vision of the ‡ e Jane and James Emisonpainting Gallery and everything highlights else derives continuity of these artists? Perhaps, PO Box 22521, art world, how it could be from that. I am in the continuity of a broader London W8 4GT, UK by Olivia Sand Asian Art Newspaper: You decided to summarised, and how artists more than 1,000 years of artistic production in South tradition, at the other end of the cave sarah.callaghan@ Izumi Kato. become an artist when you were thirty coexist. As I see it, there are two AAN: A number of your pieces are Next issue paintings? asianartnewspaper.com Photo: Claire Dorn years old. What prompted you to leave Asia, which includes present-daybased onAfghanistan, fabric. How do you go about tel +44 (0)20 7229 6040 Izumi Kato’s practice is types of artists: the conceptual ones December 2020 your previous life behind and reinvent and the others like myself, using Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, selectingand14 Sri it?Film Lanka. ‡ e AAN: Presently, with the pandemic captivating and singular, echoing yourself as an artist? 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Relying on his hands graduated, and then started looking more than any other group. I felt Japan, fabrics from Mexico, or See page 2 for details for a job in order to support myself. there was more potential and I could landscape through the widespreadtextiles I constructionfound in France. Basically, of IK: Today, with Instagram, times SEND ADVERTISING TO instead of the brush when asianartnewspaper.com Asian Art Newspaper painting, he brings together line, Working, however, meant entering achieve more with this type of art. the works in fabrics, or in stone, are have changed. In earlier times, one PO Box 22521 active life, becoming a full member temples. ‡ e timeline continuescompleted to when through Islamic materials I Š nd had to be a professional in order to be form, and colour, in order to AAN: Relying on these three elements, London W8 4GT of society. It was a strange and rulers introduced new traditionslocally, of depending architecture on where myand on television. Today, each and every [email protected] create works that resonate with trying time for me, as I was over time you have managed to projects Continuedare taking place. on  pagee 2 one of us can start making their own tel +44 (0)20 7229 6040 the viewer that reach an almost confused and disoriented by what achieve a very rich narrative. How did advantage of the fabric pieces is that publicity through that type of social contemplative state. I saw in society: for example, I was you go about that? I can install them in di© erent ways, media. I am not criticising it: it is all ART DIRECTION IK: Gary Ottewill, Editorial Design Beyond painting, Izumi Kato puzzled by the whole money- As I began painting, my work with a position according to my right and it is even a good thing. garyottewill.com (b 1969, Japan) also uses other spending circuit and, in my opinion, was about conveying hope. Why liking – a character can either be However, it is a tool and the question materials such as stone and fabric, there were many aspects of life that was that? One needs to take a closer presentedTrees, studioseated of Towaraya or standing, Sotatsu (1570-1643), giving pair of six-panel folding screens, circa 1600/1630 Willow Bridge, unsigned,is, how pair should of six-panel we folding use screens, it? Personally, late 1500s SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER completing intriguing small did not work properly. look at the art curriculum in Japan, me a lot of § exibility. Untitled (2017), I would not want to get known or get Heather Milligan asianartnewspaper.com sculptures, as well as large-scale  en, every time I faced a situation where there is a strong emphasis on wood, acrylic, soft vinyl, publicity through the wrong [email protected] AAN: When it comes to selecting 152 x 30 x 45 cm. tel +44 (0)20 7229 6040 installations. During the opening I could not understand or copying, in a hyper-realistic way, channels.  e more people see works of his latest exhibition in Paris, comprehend, I kept wondering if as everyday items so they look like #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaperstones for your pieces,EDO is |there some asianartnewspaper Courtesy AVA of the artist |& Perrotin N Asian T-GA Arton NewspaperInstagram, the more R they DE come to similarity with the way you choose the SUBSCRIPTIONS Izumi Kato discusses his an artist, I would have more choices photographs. We are being taught my exhibition, realising it has various fabrics, for example, from AND ADMINISTRATION trajectory, sharing his thoughts and alternatives, allowing me to that this is the basis of painting. Filmmaker Linda Hoaglund was born of the Edo era (1603–1868) helped nothing to do with what they saw on Asian Art Newspaper react as I felt best. I came to the I did not share that view at all, and differentand raisedareas, in Japan,refl ecting so it is perhaps the place? no pioneer modern art. During the Edo the screen.  erefore, one comes to PO Box 22521 on his approach and his wonder that her documentary Edo era, Japan prospered in peaceful conclusion that perhaps the art had a radically di© erent approach. Untitled (2017), wood, soft vinyl, IK: Yes,Avant-Garde indeed. involves With a cross-cultural regards to isolationthe from Western powers, the conclusion of why we need art. 18th C. 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In this article, the folding screens in indirect era, and the phrase ‘Edo Avant-  lm addresses climate change by (including airmail postage) colours, and dots, while also dealersLinda have Hoaglund a whole discusses variety herof oldsunlight, as well as candlelight. garde’ instantly came into my mind.order to to folding live and survive, screens we arerevealing how Edo era artists Monthly except for Winter Quarter integrating human forms. Little by fabrics,inspiration and I am for theeager  lm to and hear its fromBelow, Linda Hoaglund discusses Although I was born and raised constantly in representing in the process the of thinking,perceived and depicted human beings (Dec-Feb) and production. her inspirationUntitled for the  (2018),lm and its Japan, I rarely paid attention to as part of nature.  e art they left Summer Quarter (June-Aug) little, through this continuous them whereEdo Avant-Garde and how they reveals were the used.production. classical Japanese art, dismissing it re§as ecting,natural deŠ ning world new ways andbehind provides stunning evidence the courtly arts, spurring  e bequest made by the late Win since the late 19th century. Together, they o© er a unique insight dialogue with painting, my work  at isuntold always story ofa wonderfulhow Japanese artists moment, ‘I was inspiredoil onto make canvas, Edo Avant- 194 xconservative 130.3 cm.and decorative. Oncestrategies. 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AAN:screens, After cherry graduating blossoms andfrom waves art school,helped inspire and inœ uence world the present day. more than 100 important artworks kimono.  e Worcester Wedding intention is not to deliver any kind For the vertical ones,‘Overwhelmed if they by are the sheer seemed to leap out of the screen art today. The Asian Art Ltd BANGKOK ART ode to the human being. How do you should acknowledge them as sculptures amount of Edo avant-garde art I hadyou towardsdeliberately and the put camera the andbrush we aside‘Other in members of the team that  e Himalayan region for the state’s collection. Some of the Kimono highlights motifs inspired by of message, or to explain anything. large, they are assembleddiscovered, through I decided to an narrow my realised that Edo artists had utilised helped bring the project to fruition All rights reserved. No part of this see it? or paintings. How do you see it? order to work directly with your hands, FINE ART ~ ASIAN ANTIQUES ~ JEWELRY newspaper may be reproduced encompasses the Tibetan Plateau, most signiŠ cant include Cai the shared appreciation in Japan and BIENNALE I complete pieces following a iron rod, but if thefocus piece to is foldingsmall, screens that the screens’ indentations to pioneer include the  lm’s art history advisor, IK: IK: represented the natural world.or sometimes,the illusion ofwith 3-D. a spatula. Wherever WhatProfessor Yukio Lippit, who is a pre- without written consent. Nepal, Kashmir, and Bhutan, as Guo-Qiang’s allegorical assembly of New England for the fall season and Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) 2020 creative process, always making sure What a beautiful comment! Considering the nature of my then the stones areJapanese on top paintings of one of nature from possible, we also  lmed the screens eminent American scholar of The Asian Art Newspaper is not well as parts of Northern India, 99 replica animals, Heritage (2013), maple leaves. opened on 29 October runs until 31 the viewer looking at them can open I complete such pieces because I work, it is hard to say whether a piece another, and they thisare eraglued. reveal If a radically the diŠ erentlimitations in indirect did sunlight, you encounter which brought in Japaneseregard art at Harvard University, responsible for the statements vision of nature from what is reœ ectedto thethe traditional gold leaf backgrounds brush? back to Department of History of Art and China, and Mongolia.  ough Yayoi Kusama’s large-scale January, 2021, showcasing a total of their imagination to all sorts of myself am interested in human should be called a sculpture, a stones are horizontallyin Western on art.the Instead § oor, of depicting shimmering life and we were able to Architecture.  e Japanese scholars, expressed in contributed articles TEFAF ONLINE nature from a linear perspective IK: as  lm a pair of screens in candlelight, Dr Yamashita Yuji, and Dr Okudaira and commentaries. geographically isolated, its high sculptural work Flowers that Bloom 82 artists across 10 venues – both things.  erefore, some people may beings, with a creative process based painting, or something else. 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Noi is an authority on contemporary good faith, but are the for continuous engagement across PixCell-Double Deer#4 (2010), and (TEFAF) has announced the launch includes a huge array of installations, feel it is about an extra-terrestrial. the information within the piece, them, paint and sign them, so Basically, when I was working with AAN: Within painting,image you as the highly viewer’s value position moves. ‘We also intentionally  lmed Japanese art.  e curators Dr James responsibility of the advertiser and greater Asia. Hinduism and Nick Cave’s Heard (2012), 15 of its new digital platform, TEFAF exhibitions, and performances being I get all kinds of comments. leaving ample room for the viewer’s perhaps they could also be called Also, Japanese folding screens are theso brush,scenes in I nature,ended such up ascreating birds, Ulak,works Dr Matthew Welch, Dr Laura The Asian Art Newspaper is not ancient cave paintings.large (aDo pair you of screens see is usually 16 œ owers, trees and waves with Sony’s Allen and Hollis Goodall are Buddhism entered from India, and ‘soundsuits’ that can be activated by Online, in time for the New York staged in locations as diverse as the interpretation. I feel this is the paintings? 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What is exhibited in, anticipating theI hadperceived imagined. the innate  spiritse moment residing I• The fi lm is playing exclusively at Price guides and values are solely anyone can interpret as they please, AAN: What is your approach when IK: the Berkeley Art Museum and for readers’ reference and through trade and political alliances. celebrations. digital marketplace is hosting its 1919, and the BAB Box at nevertheless clear to me is that I In fact, when weemergence look at of installationancient art in thestarted in all usingof nature, my kami, hands, as explained I managed by depending on their imaginary, their facing a blank canvas? 20th century. the Shinto and Buddhist priests. Pacifi c Film Archive through their The Asian Art Newspaper accepts  e Š nal gallery features inaugural fair 1 to 4 November, OneBangkok, as well as historic sites enjoy painting and my goal for the paintings, we are capable‘Working of having with a masterto work‘Pre-production in a much for themore  lm begandetailed ‘Watch and From Home’ virtual cinema WORCESTER ART past, their experiences, etc. IK: cinematographer, Kasamatsu in late 2015, when we  lmed two programme. The purchase price no legal responsibility for any such Southeast Asia, which includes 2020, tefaf.com. such as Wat Prayoon. More When creating and completing a futureWhite is to Cockatoo, complete circa 1755, interesting Newand Year’s Sundialogue (1800) with these pieces. Basically, meticulous way. For example, when(US$10) is facilitated by Eventive, information published. MUSEUM The overall shape seems like an Norimichi, we decided to  lm the major exhibits at the Kyoto National Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East information on bkkartbieannale.com piece, I am only in the act of challengingby Ito Jakuchu paintings. (1716-1800),  hanging at is by Ito Jakuchuthe (1716-1800), medium allowsfolding the screensinformation by putting the camerawanting Museum to andgraduate the Freer shades, Gallery of I which accepts credit card payments. Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,  e Worcester Art Museum has THE ROYAL envelope with a content that remains painting, not trying to explain fundamental.scroll, ink and I colour want on silk,to completewith hanging scroll,to ink be and transmitted,colour on silk, onwith dolly time tracks having to allow viewers obtained to Art in Washingtona result I DC.could Research never have ISSN 1460-8537 completely free. mounting 190 x 62.3 cm, gift of with mounting 215.9 x 55.56 cm, look up at the byobu as though seated and production continued until the Watch director Linda Hoaglund the Philippines, Singapore, partnered with Chiso, the Kyoto- COLLECTION, WARANGAL FORT, anything. But ultimately, after good, Rosemarieand even and Leightonextraordinary, R Longhi 1967 .works. gift of the Clarkno Center importance. for Japanese Art When on tatami I seemat œcave oors, like people achieved in  lm was with completed a brush. in March Why 2019. isdiscuss that? the fi lm at Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery & Culture, Minneapolis Institute of Art bampfa.org/event/edo-avant-garde  ailand, and Vietnam. Featuring based kimono house, on their Š rst LONDON INDIA IK: Yes, exactly.  at is the ideal Š nishing a piece, I hope that there  erefore, I will do whatever it takes paintings, I feel somethingthe Edo era. Asvery the camera slowlyBecause Between paint 2015 andis made2019, two from major tiny works dating to 1000 BC.  is ever virtual exhibition of historic  e exhibition Japan: Courts and  e 12th-century temple, scenario and is precisely what I want will be someone who reacts to it, for me to complete such paintings in powerful. On another level, when I particles, and working with my ASIAN ART | NOVEMBER 2020 | #AsianArtPaper | asianartnewspaper | asianartnewspaper | Asian Art Newspaper gallery presents connections among and contemporary kimonos from Culture, originally due to open in Swayambhu Temple, in Warangal to accomplish. who re§ ects on it. Strangely enough, the future. see Van Gogh’s work, I also have a Continued on page 4 Mia’s South Asian and Chinese art their collection, as an June 2020, is now expected to open Fort, Telangana, has been granted collections, as well as with the local accompaniment to  e Kimono in in spring 2022.  e Royal funds for restoration. It was the Looking for community; Minnesota is home to Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design. Collection holds some of the most capital city of Kakatiyas and something to read? the third-largest Southeast Asian Kimono Couture:  e Beauty of signiŠ cant examples of Japanese art Musunuri Nayakas and has since at American population in the US. Chiso highlights the history and and design in the Western world. least the 12th century when it was exquisite artistry of the prestigious For the Š rst time, highlights from the capital of the Kakatiya dynasty. QUEENSLAND ART 465-year-old garment maker this collection will be brought  e Swayambhu,  ousand Pillar GALLERY through the presentation of 14 together to tell the story of 300 years and Ramappa temples in Warangal  e Queensland Art Gallery/ kimonos from the mid-1600s to of diplomatic, artistic and cultural had been part of a serial nomination Gallery of Modern Art 2000s. In addition, a selection of exchange between the British and for consideration for the UNESCO’s (QAGOMA) was announced related works – paintings, kimono Japanese royal and imperial families. World Heritage Sites. However, receipt of a AU$35 million bequest, fragments, and woodblock printed  e exhibition includes rare pieces of encroachments in the vicinity of the the largest single cash gift in the books – from the Chiso art porcelain and lacquer, samurai Š rst two monuments had played Explore our extensive archives gallery’s 125 year history and one of collection re§ ect the creative armour, embroidered screens and spoilsport and the Telangana at asianartnewspaper.com the most generous bequests ever collaborations between Chiso and diplomatic gifts from the reigns of government ended up nominating made to an Australian state gallery. several celebrated Japanese artists James I to Her Majesty  e Queen. only the Ramappa Temple. Spinner (1998), oil on canvas, 45.5 x 273 cm. Courtesy of the Artist. 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