Asia's Storied Traditions

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This lecture series, organized by the Society for Asian Art, explores narrative using Asian art—how myths, legends, histories and moral precepts have been transmitted through visual means. Topics range from sculptural reliefs and murals used to educate pilgrims at famous religious sites to works cre…

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"Where is this Story Going?" The Paradiegetic Pleasures of Popular Hindu Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2016 78:14

Ajay Gehlawat, Sonoma State University

Text and Image: Early Buddhist Narrative Sculpture from Northern India and Gandhara (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 48:04

Kurt Behrendt, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama and the Manga-Comics Nexus (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 37:44

Fred Schodt, Independent Scholar and Author

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Text and Image: Early Buddhist Narrative Sculpture from Northern India and Gandhara (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 39:27

Kurt Behrendt, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama and the Manga-Comics Nexus (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 41:21

Fred Schodt, Independent Scholar and Author

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Stories Old and Untold in Edo Period Art: Implied and Informed Narratives (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 49:16

Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London

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The Same Me That Stands Here Now: Jataka Tales on Tenth Century Reliquaries (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 50:53

Eugene Wang, Harvard University

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The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp: A 16th Century Royal Persian Manuscript (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 66:49

Sheila Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Same Me That Stands Here Now: Jataka Tales on Tenth Century Reliquaries (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 44:02

Eugene Wang, Harvard University

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The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp: A 16th Century Royal Persian Manuscript (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 29:05

Sheila Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Nine Cloud Dream, Nectar Ritual, and Much More in Korean Art (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 45:48

Kumja Paik Kim, Curator Emeritus, Asian Art Museum

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Stories Old and Untold in Edo Period Art: Implied and Informed Narratives (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 36:11

Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London

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Telling the Tales of Rama (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 54:55

Forrest McGill, Asian Art Museum

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“Reading” the Ramayana Through Javanese Temple Reliefs (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 54:07

Natasha Reichle, Asian Art Museum

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Nine Cloud Dream, Nectar Ritual, and Much More in Korean Art (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 31:11

Kumja Paik Kim, Curator Emeritus, Asian Art Museum

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Telling the Tales of Rama (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 37:41

Forrest McGill, Asian Art Museum

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“Reading” the Ramayana Through Javanese Temple Reliefs (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 32:05

Natasha Reichle, Asian Art Museum

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Displaying the Past: Pictorial Depictions of the Buddhist Myths and Legends of the Kathmandu Valley (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 47:44

Alexander Von Rospatt, UC Berkeley

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Storyworlds: Architecture and Embodied Cognition in Japanese Narrative Scrolls (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 52:48

Melissa McCormick, Harvard University

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The Badal Mahal at Bundi: A World Painted for Rajput Princes (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 56:38

Milo Beach, Former, Director, Smithsonian—Freer & Sackler Galleries

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Storyworlds: Architecture and Embodied Cognition in Japanese Narrative Scrolls (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 31:04

Melissa McCormick, Harvard University

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The Badal Mahal at Bundi: A World Painted for Rajput Princes (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 24:22

Milo Beach, Director, Smithsonian—Freer & Sackler Galleries

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Storytelling With Pictures: An Asian Odyssey (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 50:39

Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania

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Storytelling With Pictures: An Asian Odyssey (Part 2 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 35:26

Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania

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Displaying the Past: Pictorial Depictions of the Buddhist Myths and Legends of the Kathmandu Valley (Part 1 of 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2016 44:45