萬物 Asian Art 3

Asian Art week 3

Topics

Wednesday, February 6: Buddhist Sculpture of the Gupta Period
Friday, February 8: Buddhist Painting at Ajanta
Monday, February 11: OPEN
- LOOKING PAPER ASSIGNED

Slides & Handouts

Week 3 slides: The Kushan Empire and the Gupta Period [30 MB]
Handouts: Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Mudras

Readings

Stokstad & Cothren, 5th Edition, Chapter 10, pp. 308, 310-312
- 4th Edition, Chapter 9, pp. 306–307
Leidy, Chapters 2 and 3, pp. 49-64

Internet

Asian Art Museum
- Video: Beliefs Made Visible: Buddhist Art in South Asia (20:23)
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Ajanta Caves [Photography] [Video] (2:58) (2:01)*
Archaeological Survey of India
- Ajanta Caves [Photography] [Video]
Story of Buddhism (Benoy K. Behl)
- Masterpieces of Buddhist Art (6:30) [Ajanta sculpture]
- The Intellectual Quest (4:06) [Mahayana]
- The Vehicle of the Thunderbolt (3:50) [Vajrayana]
Paintings of India (Benoy K. Behl)

Enchanted Ajanta (7:46) [Ajanta painting]

Huntington Archive (Ohio State) [Photography]
Digital South Asia Library (University of Chicago)
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology [Photography]

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