Empresses of China's Forbidden City 1644-1912 / edited by Daisy Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart ; with essays and entries by Daisy Yiyou Wang, Jan Stuart, Lin Shu, Luk Yu-ping, Ying-chen Peng, Evelyn S. Rawski, Ren Wanping, and additional entries by curators at the Palace Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Freer│Sackler, Smithsonian Institution.

 Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912 accompanies the exhibition of the same title organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, and the Palace Museum, Beijing, China.

Exhibition Itinerary : Peabody Essex Museum, August 18, 2018-February 10, 2019 and Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, March 30-June 23, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Rediscovering the empresses of Qing China, 1644-1912 / Daisy Yiyou Wang and Jan Stuart -- Key empresses in the Qing imperial family -- Timeline of Qing empresses in world context / Doris Sung and Paula Richter -- Map of the Forbidden City -- Qing empresses and their place in history / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Qing empresses and grand imperial weddings / Ren Wanping -- Tracing the lives of Qing court women / Jan Stuart -- Empress Dowager Chongqing and the Palace of Longevity and Health / Lin Shu -- Deciphering portraits of Qing empresses / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- Qing empresses as religious patrons and practitioners / Luk Yu-ping -- Empresses and Qing court politics / Ying-chen Peng -- Plates -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Glossary of selected names and terms.

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912" : August 18, 2018-February 10, 2019, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912" : March 30-June 23, 2019, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

"Empresses in the Qing dynasty played an influential role in the imperial court and the cosmopolitan culture of their time. Offering compelling insights into the material culture, activities, and living spaces of Qing empresses, this lavishly illustrated book features over one hundred spectacular works of art from the Palace Museum in Beijing--including large-scale portraits, court robes, and richly decorated Buddhist sutras--that bring the splendor of the Qing court to life. A series of insightful essays examines the fascinating ways that key imperial women engaged with art, religion, and politics. This unprecedented exploration of the Qing court from the perspective of its top-ranked women is an important new contribution to our understanding of Chinese art and history"

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Essays : twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections / Hirabayashi Moritoku [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

"This book accompanies the exhibition catalogue Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections ... published on the occasion of the exhibition Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, December 14, 1997-March 8, 1998"--Title page verso.

Foreword / Ann Yonemura -- Emperors as artists and cultural leaders / Miyajima Shin'ichi -- Calligraphy : the Imperial Collection and its masterworks in historical context / Hirabayashi Moritoku -- The tradition and transmission of imperial culture in the early modern period : the collection of the former Katsuranomiya family / Ohta Aya -- Reassessing historical role : the Imperial Household and the Imperial Household Ministry and modern Japanese art / Ohkuma Toshiyuki.

The people, the land, the economy / Emma C. Bunker -- Early trade and contact : second millennium B.C. / Jenny F. So -- Expanded cultural exchange : ca. 1000-500 B.C. / Jenny F. So -- Luxury exports from China to the north : sixth-first century B.C. / Emma C. Bunker -- Chinese luxury goods enhanced : fifth century B.C.-first century A.D. / Emma C. Bunker -- Belt ornaments and fasteners / Jenny F. So.

The pastoral tribes on China's northern borders played a major role in the cultural development of China during antiquity. By the first millenium B.C., the region's inhabitants were trading in horses, wool, carpets and fur--items in demand by their urban Chinese neighbors. The artistic creations of the two groups reflect centuries of their complex interrelationships. The pastoral tribes favored belt buckles, chariot and harness fittings, weapons and tools in cast gold, silver and embellished bronze. The urban dwellers preferred wine and food vessels and bronze bells to use in rituals. This book emphasizes the character of consumerism in these ancient neighboring societies and the effects of commerce and migration on the appearance and production of everyday and luxury goods.--Dust jacket.

Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections / introduction by Ann Yonemura ; contributions by Hirabayashi Moritoku [and others].

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec. 14, 1997-Mar. 8, 1998.

Accompanied by book titled Essays : twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections / Hirabayashi Moritoku [and others]. (83 p.; 28 cm.). Published jointly by Imperial Household Agency, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan Foundation and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-224) and index.

Showcasing a stunning selection of seventy-six paintings and works of calligraphy dating from the ninth through the twentieth century, many for the first time to a Western audience, this volume celebrates the consistent influence of imperial taste on the development of Japanese art. Rare examples of calligraphy from the Heian and Kamakura (1185-1333) periods attest to a longstanding imperial interest in the aesthetically effective union of word and image. A series of large-scale scrolls by the eighteenth-century painter Ito Jakuchu, presented to the imperial household by the Zen Buddhist temple Shokokuji, represent the most revered Japanese paintings of natural life and the close relationship between the imperial family and the country's religious institutions.

The book also examines the court's role as an art benefactor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when international influences had a dramatic impact on Japanese notions of the visual arts. Replete with color reproductions, Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections offers scholars, collectors, connoisseurs, historians, and all those interested in Japanese art an unprecedented view of Japanese aesthetic sensibility as expressed in the imperial collections.

Map of Japan -- Chronology -- Emperors and reigning Empresses -- Imperial gift: an artistic legacy / Ann Yonemura.

Jan Stuart, Evelyn S. Rawski.
Catalog of an exhibition held June 17-Sept. 9, 2001 at Sackler Gallery.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.
"Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., in association with Stanford University Press, Stanford, California"
Foreword: Milo Cleveland Beach -- Acknowledgments & Introduction: Jan Stuart -- 1. Portraiture and ancestor rituals -- 2. Visual conventions -- 3. Realism and the Iconic pose -- 4. Nomenclature, production, and documentary value -- 5. Portrait at the Qing Court -- 6. The identity of the sitters -- 7. Innovation within tradition -- Notes -- Appendixes: 1. Other Chinese Portraits in the Collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. 2. Selected Biographies. -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Chinese Characters. Index.
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Yoga : the art of transformation / Debra Diamond ; David Gordon White, Tamara I. Sears, Carl W. Ernst, James Mallinson, Joseph S. Alter, Mark Singleton, Sita Reddy ; with contributions by Molly Emma Aitken ... et al.

"Published by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation, October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the exhibition travels to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 22-May 18, 2014, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 22-September 7, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-319) and index.

Essays :  Yoga: the art of transformation /  Debra Diamond --  Yoga in transformation /  David Gordon White --  From guru to god: yogic prowess and places of practice in early-medieval India /  Tamara I. Sears --  Muslim interpreters of yoga /  Carl W. Ernst --  Yogis in Mughal India /  James Mallinson --  Yoga, bodybuilding, and wrestling: metaphysical fitness /  Joseph S. Alter --  Globalized modern yoga /  Mark Singleton.

Catalogue. pt. 1. The path of yoga. Manifestations of Shiva ; Portraying the guru ; Yoginis ; Nath Siddhas ; Jain yoga: nonviolence for karmic purification ; Yoga and tapas: the Buddhists and Ajivikas ; Austerities ; Meditation ; Asana ; The cosmic body ; The subtle body ; The militant ascetic body ; Illusion and reality in the Yoga vasishta -- pt. 2. Landscapes of yoga. Ashram and math ; Pilgrimage ; The cremation ground -- pt. 3. Yoga in the Indian imagination, 16th-19th century. Yogis in the literary imagination ; Transcendence and desire in Ragamala paintings ; Mughal albums -- pt. 4. Yoga in the transnational imagination, 18th-20th century. Company paintings ; Colonial photography ; The bed of nails: the exotic across borders and media ; Fakirs, fakers, and magic -- pt. 5. Modern transformations. Vivekananda and rational spirituality ; Medical yoga ; Modern postural yoga.

Yoga: The Art of Transformation is the companion book to the first ever exhibition of the visual history of yoga, a discipline that is thousands of years old and practiced today by millions of people. Like the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery exhibit, this large pictorial uses a wealth of materials from ancient stone and bronze temple sculptures to early 20th century photographs to illuminate yoga's central tenets and its still partly un-delineated traditions. Explore the discipline's goals of spiritual enlightenment, worldly power, and health and well-being through the beauty and profundity of Indian art.