VOLUME 25 NO. VOLUME MARCH 2016 1 THE JOURNAL OF THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA TAASA Review CONTENTS Volume 25 No. 1 March 2016 3 EDITORIAL TAASA REVIEW Josefa Green THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA INC. Abn 64093697537 • Vol. 25 No. 1, March 2016 4 CHANG’AN: A COSMOPOLITAN CAPITAL ON THE SILK ROAD ISSN 1037.6674 Registered by Australia Post. Publication No. NBQ 4134 Cao Yin editoriAL • email: [email protected] 7 INSPIRATION FROM THE PAST: TRACING MOTIFS AND PATTERNS IN FUSTAT TEXTILE FRAGMENTS General editor, Josefa Green Liz Williamson PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE 10 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE QING IN CELESTIAL EMPIRE AT THE NLA Josefa Green (convenor) • Tina burge Nathan Woolley Melanie Eastburn • Sandra Forbes Charlotte Galloway • Marianne Hulsbosch 12 THE GREGORY PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHINA IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY COLLECTION Ann MacArthur • Jim Masselos • Ann Proctor Sabrina Snow • Christina Sumner Olivier Krischer DESIGN/LAYOUT 14 LUNAR LANTERNS: WELCOMING IN THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY IN SYDNEY Ingo Voss, VossDesign PRINTING Claudia Chan Shaw in conversation with Josefa Green John Fisher Printing 16 CHINESE INK AND BRUSH PAINTING – A PRACTITIONER’S PERSPECTIVE Published by The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. 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THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ADveRTISING FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 1 MAY 2016 VISIT THE TAASA WEBSITE, WWW.TAASA.ORG.AU TO ACCESS WAYS OF SEARCHING INFORMATION PUBLISHED IN THE TAASA REVIEW SINCE ITS BEGINNINGS IN 1991. 2 TAASA COMMITTEE EDITORIAL GiLL Green • PRESIDENT Josefa Green, Editor Art historian specialising in Cambodian culture Ann ProCTOR • VICE PRESIDENT Art historian with a particular interest in Vietnam In this firstTAASA Review for 2016, we offer a Liz Williamson gives us an account of her taste of the variety of exhibitions which will recent UNSW residency in Paris, researching todd SundermAn • TREASURER be on show over the next months. historic Indian textiles in French and UK Former Asian antique dealer, with a particular interest museums. This residency was intended to in Tibetan furniture Two related exhibitions in Canberra are being provide a resource and reference for both her dy AndreASen • SeCretAry held at the National Library of Australia and own studio work and for planned projects Has a special interest in Japanese haiku and at China in the World, ANU. Celestial Empire: with textile artisans in India. In her article, tanka poetry Life in China, 1644–1911 at the NLA presents Liz shares some of the results of her research SIOBHAN CAMPBELL a selection of works produced under China’s on the Fustat fragments held at the Musée Lecturer, Indonesian Studies, Sydney University last imperial dynasty drawn equally from Guimet: a group of Indian textiles excavated with an interest in Balinese art the collections of the NLA and the National in the early 1900s from various Middle BEV DUNBAR Library of China. Curator Nathan Woolley’s Eastern sites which take their name from Has an interest in Asian artefacts and textiles, article focuses in particular on the illustrated Fustat, an old capital of Egypt. particularly from Southeast Asia, as well as European books on show. medieval icons London based Jane Evans, honorary co- JOSEFA GREEN At CIW at ANU, we can view images of 1930s president of the Chinese Brush Painters General editor of TAASA Review. Collector of China taken by Stanley O. Gregory, who Society, gives us a personal practitioner’s Chinese ceramics worked in HK and China in the 1920s and account of how she came to study traditional BORIS KASPIEV 30s, printed in large-format for the first time Chinese brush painting techniques while a Private collector of Asian art with a particular interest from original negatives in the NLA collection. resident of Manila, Philippines, and how she in the Buddhist art of the Himalayan region In his article for the TR, Olivier Krischer works with this genre to produce paintings JILLIAN KENNEDY uncovers an interesting research trail which combining her western approach with her Former lecturer, Asian Studies, with an interest raises questions about the dating and even Chinese brush painting training. in Vietnamese ceramics the authorship of some of these photographs. MIN-JUNG KIM We are also pleased to publish an edited Curator of Asian Arts & Design at the April will see an exhibition of more than 130 version of the essay by PhD student Alison Powerhouse Museum outstanding art works from Xi’an and its Vincent which won the TAASA QLD prize adjacent areas entitled Tang: treasures from the for best essay addressing Asian art at the 19th JAMES MACKEAN Silk Road capital at the Art Gallery of NSW. annual University of Queensland School of Collector of oriental ceramics This is a truly major event, offered together Communication and Arts postgraduate Work NATALIE SEIZ with a symposium and lecture series. The in Progress (WiP) Conference. The TAASA Assistant Curator, Asian Art, AGNSW with an curator of the exhibition, AGNSW’s Cao Yin, award was generously offered by TAASA interest in modern/contemporary Asian Art describes how the Tang capital Chang’an Convenor in Queensland, James MacKean, CHRISTINA SUMNER became a focal point for the development of and was judged and presented by Gael Former Principal Curator, Design and Society, the Tang dynasty’s cosmopolitan culture. Newton, who has provided an introduction Powerhouse Museum, Sydney to Alison’s essay. SANDY WATSON Far more modest in size, though not in Collector of textiles with an interest in quality, is a display until end June of the This March TR closely follows the Lunar New photography and travel newly acquired contemporary ceramic pieces Year celebrations. To mark the 20th Chinese MARGARET WHITE of Korean Yeung-an Jang at the Museum New Year Festival in Sydney, 12 monumental Former President and Advisor of the Friends of for Applied Arts & Sciences (Powerhouse lanterns representing the zodiac animals Museums, Singapore, with special interest in Museum). There is a fascinating link between were displayed in key positions throughout Southeast Asian art, ceramics and textiles this exhibition and the AGNSW’s Tang Sydney, a number of which were artist TAASA AMBASSADOR exhibition: as Min-Jung Kim, Curator of commissioned by the City of Sydney’s first JACKIE MENZIES Asian Arts & Design at MAAS points out, the Festival curator, Claudia Chan Shaw. You can Emeritus Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of NSW. Korean celadon tradition in which Yeung-an read the results of my conversation with her President of TAASA from 1992 – 2000 Jang is immersed was initially influenced by in the Lunar Lanterns article. the Yue greenware kilns in Zhejiang Province, STATE REPRESENTATIVES China, which produced some of the finest And finally, a variety of offerings. Curator AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY celadons during the Tang period. Joanna Barrkman describes two prints MELANIE EASTBURN by Dadang Christanto in Charles Darwin Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia We took advantage of Gill Green’s recent visit University’s Art Collection. Gill Green to London to commission an account of a reviews The Roots of Asian Weaving: The He QUEENSLAND major textile exhibition at the V&A, The Fabric Haiyan Collection of Textiles and Looms from TARUN NAGESH of India, the first major exhibition to explore Southwest China by Eric Boudot and Chris Assistant Curator, Asian Art, QAGOMA handmade textiles from India from the 3rd Buckley.