The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article, along with the first paragraph of the introductory essay and a sample image from each of the main articles.

The Historiography of Reuse in South Asia
Alka Patel, 1

Excerpt: “It is little wonder that the historical phenomenon of architectural and sculptural reuse has attracted the attention of scholars investigating many regions and time periods. The late Roman empire and its immediate cultural diaspora (4th–5th c. CE), the Byzantine and Islamic worlds (6th–11th c. CE), and medieval Europe (12th–14th c. CE) are among the geographies and time periods known in scholarly ambits for reuse of architectural and sculptural fragments. Reuse of older elements to create new buildings or other composites is an eminently pragmatic human activity, with, additionally imaginative, allusory, and less tangible implications. To modern scholars and other viewers, historical instances of the integration of older and sometimes non-local elements into new works seems to signal, at least at first sight, the physical bringing together of different cultures and eras. Where scholars and/or the public have defined religions, states, or communities as mutually antagonistic, one group’s reuse of its rivals’ creations—whether wholesale or in part—seems to promise especially rich historical insight, indicating either the ultimate triumph of one over the other, or alternatively, their ultimate resolution of differences.”

Fortified Maṭhas and Fortress Mosques: The Transformation and Reuse of Hindu Monastic Sites in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Tamara I. Sears, 7

Surwāyā, overview of site

Expanding the Ghurid Architectural Corpus East of the Indus: The Jāgeśvara Temple at Sādaḍi, Rajasthan
Alka Patel, 33

Mosque of Qutb al-Din Aibeg at the Qutbi Complex. Delhi. Founded 1192-1193.

Translating Sacred Space in Bijāpur: The Mosques of Karīm al-Dīn and Khwāja Jahān
Katherine E. Kasdorf, 57

Mosque of Karīm al-Dīn, Bijāpur

Parataxis and the Practice of Reuse, from Mughal Margins to Mīr Kalān Khān
Molly Emma Aitken, 81

Bhīl couple with horseman. India. Mughal, 18th c.

Contesting the Lost Land, New Land, and Pure Land: Buddhist Steles of Seventh-Century Korea
Sunkyung Kim, 105

Standing Buddha (obverse and reverse). 539 CE. Koguryo, Korea.

Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2006–2008
135

Vol. 58 (2008) of the Archives of Asian Art has just debuted in the Project MUSE Premium Collection of electronic journals. Vol. 59 (2009) is in proofs and is on track to appear later this year.

The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article, along with a sample image from each of the main articles.

Articles

The Eleventh-century Daxiongbaodian of Kaihuasi and Architectural Style in Southern Shanxi’s Shangdang Region
Tracy Miller, p. 1

Fig. 34. Zishengsi. 11th c. – modern additions. Gaoping Municipality, Shanxi Province. View from northwest. Photograph by author.

Identifying Several Visual Types in Gandhāran Buddha Images
Juhyung Rhi, p. 43

Fig. 24. Buddha triad. Dated “year 5.” Provenance unknown. H. 62 cm. Agonshū, Japan. From Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. 1, P3-VIII.

The Disputed Umā-Maheśvara in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: A Case Study in Reattribution and Reinterpretation
Stephen Markel, p. 87

Fig. 19. Four of the seven Mother Goddesses. Ca. 750–800. Madhya Pradesh or Uttar Pradesh, India. Sandstone; h. 56, w. 84. d.15 cm. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Gift of Dr. Stephen A. Sherwin and Merrill Randol Sherwin, F2004.38. © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Used by permission.

Euigwe and the Documentation of Joseon Court Ritual Life
Yi Sŏng-mi, p. 113

Fig. 16. Ten Symbols of Longevity Screen. Ten-fold screen; ink and color on silk; 208.5 x 38.9 cm, National Palace Museum of Korea, Seoul.

Obituary: Harrie A. Vanderstappen, S.V.D. (1921–2007)
p. 135

Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2006–2008
p. 137

The Asia Society’s venerable Archives of Asian Art, which spent its youth and teenage years as the Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, goes digital this year. Volumes 1 (1945/46) though 55 (2005) have just made their online debut in the Arts & Sciences V Collection at JSTOR, where a new back volume will be added each year.

Those who cannot wait to see current volumes appear online will be pleased to know that volumes 57 (2007) through 59 (2009) are scheduled to debut in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection by year-end. In 2010, when JSTOR mounts volume 56 (2006) online, the whole run of the Archives of Asian Art will finally be available in electronic as well as print editions.

Vol. 57 (2007) of the Archives of Asian Art, now published by the University of Hawai‘i Press for the Asia Society, has finally appeared in print. We apologize for the long delay.

Archives of Asian Art is an annual journal devoted to the arts of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Each issue presents articles by leading scholars and a selection of outstanding works of Asian art acquired by North American museums during the previous year. The editors attempt to maintain a balanced representation of regions and types of art, as well as a variety of scholarly perspectives.

The Table of Contents of volume 57 follows, along with a sample of the art discussed in each article.

ARTICLES

Golden Mangoes—The Life Cycle of a Cultural Revolution Symbol
Alfreda Murck, p. 1

Fig. 1. Small poster. Caption above: “Our country has a population of 700 million and the working class is the leadership class. Bring into full play the leading role of the working class in the great cultural revolution and in all fields of work. The working class also must continuously raise its political consciousness through struggle.” Caption below: “Mango—The precious gift personally presented by Great Leader Chairman Mao to Capital Workers Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams.”

Fashioning a Political Body: The Tomb of a Rouran Princess
Bonnie Cheng, p. 23

Fig. 19. Chamber murals.
Xu Xianxiu tomb,Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.
Northern Qi, 571 CE.
After WW2003.10.

The Cliff-sculpture of Stone-Gate Mountain: A Mirror of Religious Eclecticism in the Art of Twelfth-Century Sichuan
Tom Suchan, p. 51

Fig. 8. Overview of Niche 11 and the western entrance
of the chasm between the two primary rock outcroppings,
Mt. Shimen, Dazu County.
Photograph by author.

Jiajing Emperor and His Auspicious Words
Maggie C. K. Wan, p. 95

Fig. 6. Large bowl with design of miniature potted bamboo, pine, peach tree, and cypress, with trunks twisted to form the four characters fu, shou, kang, and ning. Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Prov. Porcelain; underglaze blue-and-white; h. 20.5 cm, mouth 38.7 cm, base 19.58 cm. Tianminlou collection.

Two Paths to the Pure Land: The Niga-byakudō Theme and the Modernist Buddhist Art of Hada Teruo
John D. Szostak, p. 121

Fig. 1. Hada Teruo (1887–1945). Bukka Kai’en no Zu (Pure Land Paradise as Karmic Reward). 1937. Japan.
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold on silk; 49.2 x 86.9 cm. Hoshino Garō, Kyoto.

Obituary: Peter Drucker (1909–2005)
p. 151

Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2004–2005
p. 153