Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of Volume 41 of Ars Orientalis. The volume begins with former Freer curator James Cahill’s Freer Medal presentation. Next, authors Kim Besio and Lai-Pik Chan explore Chinese cultural norms and assumptions through artwork, looking to explain ideas of love and insect iconography, respectively. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt writes on sixth-century East Asian architecture, looking at religious and funerary art in Japan, China and Korea. Jennifer Finn explores issues of kingship in the Achaemenid Empire through a close analysis of inscriptions. Additional articles by Tülün Değirmenci, Leslie Wallace, and Shih-shan Susan Huang round out this issue with thematic focuses on the Ottoman Empire, the Eastern Han, and Song dynasties.
Please visit the Freer and Sackler website for Table of Contents and purchasing information: http://www.asia.si.edu/research/AOOrder.asp.
Best regards,
Nancy Micklewright
Head, Scholarly Programs and Publications
Freer and Sackler Galleries
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