Collins Memorial Library: ARTH 370: Buddhist Art: Secondary Sources

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Books on Buddhist Art

How to Read Buddhist Art by Kurt A. Behrendt
Call Number: N8193.A4 B44 2019
ISBN: 9781588396730
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
An indispensable introduction to the evolution of Buddhist imagery from its origins in India through its spread to China, Japan, and South Asia.
Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art by Adriana Proser (Editor); Susan Beningson (Contribution by); Janice Leoshko (Contribution by); D. Max Moerman (Contribution by); Katherine Paul (Contribution by); Ian Reader (Contribution by); Robert Stoddard (Contribution by); Donald K. Swearer (Contribution by); Chun-Fang Yu (Contribution by)
Call Number: N8193.A3 N486 2010
ISBN: 9780300155662
Publication Date: 2010-04-20
A comprehensive study of the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asian visual culture.
Buddhist Art and Architecture by Robert E. Fisher
Call Number: N8193.A4 F57 1993
ISBN: 9780500202654
Publication Date: 1993-05-17
The author describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures, and explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folk art to early Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens.
Buddhist art in south-east Asia : the Indian influence on the art of Thailand by Le May, Reginald
Call Number: N7321 .L4 2004
ISBN: 9788173052606
Publication Date: 2004
Connects the history of different forms of Buddhist art which flourished in South-East Asia, especially Thailand, from the early years of Christian era up to the end of the sixteenth century.
Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: early Buddhist art from Korea and Japan by Washizuka Hiromitsu
Call Number: N7353.12 .W37 2003
ISBN: 9780913304549
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Comparing Korean and Japanese Buddhist art, this volume explores the cultural, ideological and artistic exchange between the two countries during the 6th-9th centuries, when Buddhism took hold throughout northeast Asia.
The Flowering of a Foreign Faith by Janet Baker (Editor)
Call Number: N8193.C6 F5 1998
ISBN: 9788185026428
Publication Date: 2007-04-11
This book presents new research on topics which center around the question of how Chinese Buddhist art evolved and what characterizes it as distinct ly Chinese. Touching upon the Indian roots of Buddhism, the authors focus on the transformations that took place once the belief system entered the Chinese political, social, and philosophical

Databases

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Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, including coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Contains records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary journal archive. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Includes the Artstor image collections.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database containing full text journal, magazine & newspaper articles, many from peer-reviewed titles. This scholarly collection covers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Research Library (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Features the full text of a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and newspapers covering all academic subject areas.

Scholarly Journals

Browse scholarly journals with a focus on Asian art, architecture, and archeology.

Archives of Asian Art
Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Articles discuss premodern and contemporary visual arts, archaeology, architecture, and the history of collecting.
Journal of Asian Studies
Published for the Association for Asian Studies
The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) has played a defining role in the field of Asian studies for over 75 years. JAS publishes the very best empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies.
Art History: Journal of the Association for Art History
Art History is an international, refereed journal that promotes world-class art-historical scholarship from across the globe. It publishes essays and critical reviews that foreground methodological self-reflexivity and highlights specific areas of concern and interest to the field through its special issue programme.
Artibus Asiae
Artibus Asiae is a semi-annual publication of original scholarly articles, research notes, and book reviews devoted to the history of art and archaeology of Asia.