In the shadow of the golden age: art and identity in Asia from Gandhara to the modern age

Contents

The golden age, history and memory in modernity / Partha Mitter -- Introduction: out of the shadow of the golden age / Julia A. B. Hegewald -- Buddhist art through a modern lens: a case of a mistaken scholarly trajectory / Susan L. Huntington -- The legacy of Gandhāra in central Asian painting / Ciro Lo Muzio -- The 'movable' golden ages: 'western' Asiatic art beyond its homeland and transitioning to central and north-east Asia / John C. Huntington -- 'Golden age' and 'decline' in art-historical writing on Chinese Buddhist sculpture: describing a shifting discourse / Petra Hildegard Rösch -- The alteration and destruction of Buddhist images at Angkor during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / William A. Southworth -- Art and narrative in changing conditions: southern Buddhist temple art as an accommodation of the new and diverse / Sarah Shaw -- Performing endangerment: damage, loss and maintenance in the historiography of Newar religious artefacts / Christoph Emmrich -- Political and social dimensions as reflected in medieval Indian sculpture: comparison, antagonism, identity / Tiziana Lorenzetti -- Golden age or Kali-Yuga?: the changing fortunes of Jaina art and identity in Karnataka / Julia A. B. Hegewald -- Trans-cultural temples: identity and practice in Goa / Mallica Kumbera Landrus -- Indian 'company school' art from 1780 to 1820: collecting versus documenting / Jennifer Howes -- The 'golden age' and the secession: approaches to alterity in early twentieth-century world art / Eva-Maria Troelenberg -- Old texts, new images: illustrating the Śvetāmbara Jaina Āgamas today / Nalini Balbir -- Entangled temporality: contemporary Indian artists and their retakes on the 'golden' age / Parul Dave Mukherji -- Shanghai, Paris, Little Lhasa: on global perspectives of contemporary Tibetan art or the multiplicity of artistic golden ages / Regina Höfer.