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The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia VOLUME 21 NO. 3 SEPTEMBER 2012 the journal of the asian arts society of australia TAASA Review C o N t en t S Volume 21 No. 3 September 2012 3 Editorial TAASa rEViEW Josefa Green, Editor THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA INC. ABN 64093697537 • Vol. 21 No. 3, September 2012 4 tHE NATS oF MYaNMar ISSN 1037.6674 Registered by Australia Post. Publication No. NBQ 4134 Sally Bamford EditorIAL • email: [email protected] 7 SCUlPtUrE WORKSHoPS oF aNGKOR: tWo rECENT EXCaVATIONS iN CaMBODIA General editor, Josefa Green Martin Polkinghorne publiCatioNS Committee 10 FROM CaMEL GIRTH to CoNtEMPORARY GoWN: PlY-SPlit artiST ERROLL PIRES Josefa Green (convenor) • Tina Burge Carole Douglas Melanie Eastburn • Sandra Forbes Charlotte Galloway • Jim Masselos • Ann Proctor 12 aCtS OF DEVOTION – BALINESE MaNDALAS Sabrina Snow • Christina Sumner Joanna Barrkman design/laYoUt Ingo Voss, VossDesign 14 BUDDHiST TREaSUrES IN MoNGOLIA PriNting Jackie Menzies John Fisher Printing Published by The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. 16 DIViNE WORLDS: INDIAN PAINTING AT THE NGa PO Box 996 Potts Point NSw 2011 Melanie Eastburn www.taasa.org.au Enquiries: [email protected] 18 rESEARCHiNG BUrMa: tHE aUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNiVErSITY liBRARY Charlotte Galloway TAASA Review is published quarterly and is distributed to members of The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. TAASA Review welcomes submissions of articles, notes and reviews on Asian visual and 20 FOCUS ON INDIA at tHE 2012 SYdNEY FILM FESTIVAL performing arts. All articles are refereed. Additional copies and Jim Masselos subscription to TAASA Review are available on request. 22 BOOK rEViEW: THE DELHI CORONATION DURBARS No opinion or point of view is to be construed as the opinion of The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc., its staff, servants or agents. Narayani Gupta No claim for loss or damage will be acknowledged by TAASA Review as a result of material published within its pages or 24 BOOK rEViEW: SACRED SITES OF BURMA in other material published by it. we reserve the right to alter Pamela Gutman or omit any article or advertisements submitted and require indemnity from the advertisers and contributors against damages 26 iN tHE PUBLIC doMAIN: A BURMESE BUDDHA AT THE Maitland REgional Art Gallery or liabilities that may arise from material published. 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Rates below are GST inclusive. 30 WHAT’S oN iN aUStralia aNd oVErSEaS: SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2012 Compiled by Tina Burge Back page $850 Full inner page $725 Half page horizontal $484 Third page (vertical or horizontal) $364 Half column $265 Insert $300 For further information re advertising, including discounts for regular quarterly advertising, please contact [email protected] The dEadliNE For all artiCles FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 1 OCTOBER 2012 VallEY oF SaiNtS, wOMEN takE THEIR wARES to A boaters’ MARkET, kASHMIR, STILL FROM FILM. The dEadliNE For all aDvertiSing COURTESy SyDNEy FILM Festival. SEE PP20-21. FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 1 NOVEMBER 2012 a FUll iNdex of artiClES PUBlished in TAASA RevIew Since itS BEGinnings in 1991 is aVailaBle on tHE taaSa WEB SitE, WWW.taaSa.orG.aU 2 t a a S a C o mm i t t ee E d i t o r i a l Gill Green • President Josefa Green, Editor Art historian specialising in Cambodian culture CHRISTINA SUMNER • Vice President Principal Curator, Design and Society, Burma has been in the spot light in recent extensive Indian painting collection. TAASA Powerhouse Museum, Sydney times, with Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace is organising a members’ event to view this aNN GUILD • TREASURER Prize and the current seemingly rapid opening exhibition in Canberra, together with a major Former Director of the Embroiders Guild (UK) up of the country. Many TAASA members contemporary Chinese portrait exhibition at dY aNdrEasen • SECRETARy have already visited or are planning to visit the National Portrait Gallery (see Members’ Has a special interest in Japanese haiku and tanka poetry Burma, so will hopefully find a number of Diary on p 29). Hwei-fe’N CHEaH articles on Burma in this issue of interest. Visiting Fellow, School of Cultural Inquiry, Australian Textile enthusiasts will enjoy Carole Douglas’ National University. Sally Bamford shares the result of her research fascinating account of the life and work of JoCElYN CHEY into a less well known aspect of Burmese contemporary ply-split braider Erroll Pires, Visiting Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, spiritual life: a belief in the nats or guardian who is also co-ordinator of textiles at the University of Sydney; former diplomat spirits that evolved from ancestor worship and National Institute for Design at Ahmedabad. Matt CoX a belief in supernatural forces residing in the Cineastes will enjoy Jim Masselos’ lively Study Room Co-ordinator, Art Gallery of New South landscape. Illustrated by her own photos, she take on this year’s Focus on India films at the Wales, with a particular interest in Islamic Art of paints a vivid picture of how a belief in nats 2012 Sydney Film Festival. Finally, Narayani Southeast Asia still permeates Burmese society, as evidenced Gupta’s erudite review of the latest publication CHarlotte GalloWaY by the many shrines and images found from the Alkazi Collection of Photography, Lecturer Asian Art History and Curatorial Studies, throughout the countryside and in homes and Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Australian National University, with a special interest businesses as well as Buddhist temples. Durbars, allows the TAASA Review to dip again in the Buddhist Art of Myanmar into this wonderful archive of 19th and early Josefa Green Art historical research on Burma has been 20th century South Asian photography. General editor of TAASA Review. Collector of Chinese impeded due to political upheaval from the ceramics, with long-standing interest in East Asian 1950s and restricted access to information Following his recent presentation at the art as student and traveller in the second half of the 20th century. This University of Sydney, I’m delighted that MiN-JUNG KiM makes collections of research material such Martin Polkinghorne has been able to Curator of Asian Arts & Design at the Powerhouse Museum as, in this case, that of Burmese specialist report in this issue on the outcome of recent aNN PROCTOR Dr David Pfanner donated to the Menzies excavations led by the Angkor Research Art historian with a particular interest in Vietnam Library at the Australian National University, Program of the University of Sydney at Yukie Sato all the more valuable. Charlotte Galloway has Angkor, Cambodia. He points out that up Former Vice President of the Oriental Ceramic Society of waded through this collection to give us some until now, the manufacturing methods and the Philippines with wide-ranging interest in Asian art interesting insights into the kind of information, activities of the artists who made the great and culture sometimes off beat, such collections can offer. Angkor sandstone and bronze sculptures SaBRINA SNoW have been unknown. For the first time, these Has a long association with the Art Gallery of New South Three shorter pieces provide further differing excavations have focused on two sculpture Wales and a particular interest in the arts of China perspectives on Burma. Our regular feature, In ateliers at Angkor, with fascinating results todd SundErMaN the Public Domain presents a lovely Mandalay such as the discovery of a bronze workshop, Former Asian antique dealer, with a particular interest style marble Buddha at the Maitland Regional the first of its kind, not only in Cambodia but in Tibetan furniture Art Gallery by curator Cheryl Farrell. Pamela in Southeast Asia. MarGarEt WHitE Gutman reviews a 2011 publication Sacred Sites Former President and Advisor of the Friends of Museums, of Burma by Donald Stadtner, while Merry Two final contributors will be familiar to Singapore, with special interest in Southeast Asian art, Pearson reviews a Burmese produced DVD TAASA Review ceramics and textiles readers and both present of songs in the Mahagita, Burmese classical articles with a Buddhist theme, though in HoN. aUditor music tradition, featuring Yuri Takahashi as entirely different contexts. Joanna Barrkman Rosenfeld Kant and Co singer and Mahagita musician Ye Naing Linn. discusses the use of cosmic mandala designs S t a t E r ep r esen t a t i ves in Balinese devotional art. Jackie Menzies Just a note on terminology in relation to offers us a tantalizing preview of her current AUSTRALIAN Capital Territory Burma. Alert readers will notice that some research on Mongolian Buddhist art, in robyn Maxwell authors in this issue have used the current UN preparation for a proposed major exhibition Visiting Fellow in Art History, ANU; Senior Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia recognised terminology for Burma, namely at the AGNSW on this subject next year. Myanmar, Yangon and Bagan, as against QUEENSLAND the older style Burma, Rangoon and Pagan. On p28 you will find a report on TAASA’s Russell StorEr This is a very sensitive issue and there are 2012 AGM where new TAASA Committee Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, arguments for both approaches. My editorial members Charlotte Galloway, Susan Scollay, Queensland Art Gallery approach has therefore been to allow each Todd Sunderman and Margaret White were SOUTH AUSTRALIA author to adopt the terminology they prefer.
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