The Asian Baseline Essay In

THE ASIAN BASELINE ESSAY ART By William Lillys Epilogue By Pratipaditya Pal Editors: So Kam Ng Lee Christine Knoke William Lillys Born in New York, William Lillys has had extensive associations with Asian art and culture beginning with parental origins in Istanbul, Turkey. Studies in design and painting at the Pratt Institute and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris led to his museum career, first as a designer of exhibitions at the Newark Museum and later as Director of Education at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia University. His last project was directed to the development of media programs in the visual arts for teachers while he was Director of Museum Education at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. William Lillys passed away on December 4, 1996. Pratapaditya Pal Dr. Pratapaditya Pal was born in British India (present day Bangladesh) and educated in India and in England at Cambridge University. Dr. Pal is an internationally known authority on various aspects of Asian art and culture. He has authored and edited over fifty books and has written hundreds of articles. Currently he is a fellow for research at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California and visiting curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Last Printed: 2/24/00 AUTHOR: Lillys SUBJECT: Art Table of Contents INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................2 WEST ASIA ......................................................................................................................5 Introduction............................................................................................................5 Art Traditions of West Asia ....................................................................................5 Mesopotamia .........................................................................................................7 Persia ..................................................................................................................17 The Arabian Peninsula ........................................................................................29 The Levant: Ancient Canaan and Palestine ........................................................31 The Levant: Phoenicia (Lebanon and Coastal Syria) ..........................................33 Cyprus .................................................................................................................36 Anatolia (Turkey, Asia Minor)...............................................................................37 Afghanistan .........................................................................................................47 NORTH AND CENTRAL ASIA .......................................................................................50 Introduction..........................................................................................................50 Siberia .................................................................................................................50 The Spread of Buddhism.....................................................................................53 Tibet.....................................................................................................................55 SOUTH ASIA..................................................................................................................58 Introduction..........................................................................................................58 Art of the Indian Subcontinent .............................................................................58 Jain Art ................................................................................................................77 Nepal ...................................................................................................................79 Sri Lanka .............................................................................................................80 SOUTHEAST ASIA ........................................................................................................85 Introduction..........................................................................................................85 Myanmar (Burma) ...............................................................................................85 Thailand...............................................................................................................88 Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam ............................................................................91 Indonesia .............................................................................................................96 EAST ASIA ...................................................................................................................101 Introduction........................................................................................................101 China .................................................................................................................101 Korea .................................................................................................................127 Japan.................................................................................................................134 EPILOGUE ...................................................................................................................141 Art & Architecture ..............................................................................................142 Music .................................................................................................................145 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..........................................................................................................148 i AUTHOR: Lillys SUBJECT: Art Table of Figures Figure 1 Combat Scene: Hero Wrestling a Lion............................................................................................................. 9 Figure 2 Bull-Headed Lyre Plaque ............................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 3 Assurbanipal Killing a Lion ..............................................................................................................................11 Figure 4 Stele of King Naram Sin ................................................................................................................................ 12 Figure 5 Stele with the Law Code of Hammurabi ........................................................................................................ 13 Figure 6 Alter of Tukultininurta I ................................................................................................................................... 14 Figure 7 City Attacked with a Battering Ram ............................................................................................................... 15 Figure 8 Boundary Stone of Mardukapaliddina ............................................................................................................ 16 Figure 9 Ishtar Gate ..................................................................................................................................................... 16 Figure 10 Painted Vase ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Figure 11 Pole Top ....................................................................................................................................................... 19 Figure 12 Rhyton ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Figure 13 Relief from Susa .......................................................................................................................................... 20 Figure 14 A Musical Beverage Dispenser .................................................................................................................... 22 Figure 15 The Constellation Pegasus .......................................................................................................................... 23 Figure 16 Alexander Fights the Habash Monster ......................................................................................................... 24 Figure 17 Hamaay on the Day After his Wedding ........................................................................................................ 25 Figure 18 The Building of the Mosque at Samarqand.................................................................................................. 27 Figure 19 Portrait of Riza ............................................................................................................................................. 28 Figure 20 Mir Khasuau ................................................................................................................................................. 30 Figure 21 Dome of the Rock ........................................................................................................................................ 31 Figure 22 Ivory Figurine of Pregnant Woman .............................................................................................................. 32 Figure

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