Gandhran art is often regarded as the epitome of cultural exchange in antiquity. The ancient region of Gandhra, centred on what is now the northern tip of Pakistan, has been called the crossroads of Asia. The Buddhist art produced in and around this area in the first few centuries AD exhibits extraordinary connections with other traditions across Asia and as far as the Mediterranean. Since the nineteenth century, the Graeco-Roman associations of Gandhran art have attracted particular attention. Classically educated soldiers and administrators of that era were astonished by the uncanny resemblance of many works of Gandhran sculpture to Greek and Roman art made thousands of miles to the west. More than a century later we can recognize that the Gandhran artists appropriation of classical iconography and styles was diverse and extensive, but the explanation of this influence remains puzzling and elusive. The Gandhra Connections project at the University of Oxfords Classical Art Research Centre was initiated principally to cast new light on this old problem.
This volume is the third set of proceedings of the projects annual workshop, and the first to address directly the question of cross-cultural influence on and by Gandhran art. The contributors wrestle with old controversies, particularly the notion that Gandhran art is a legacy of Hellenistic Greek rule in Central Asia and the growing consensus around the important role of the Roman Empire in shaping it. But they also seek to present a more complex and expansive view of the networks in which Gandhra was embedded. Adopting a global perspective on the subject, they examine aspects of Gandhras connections both within and beyond South Asia and Central Asia, including the profound influence which Gandhran art itself had on the development of Buddhist art in China and India.
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'Overall, the work is well illustrated and well documented, its particular value in providing new methods of investiagation (Stoye) and material not readily accessible to those without a knowledge of Oriental languages and script.' Michael Weiskopf (2023): Ancient West and East 22
Preface Wannaporn Rienjang and Peter Stewart (vi-vii): DOI:
10.32028/9781789696950-1 ;
Part 1 Global perspectives ;
Gandhra perceptions: the orbit of Gandhran studies Warwick Ball (1-25):
DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-2 ;
Part 2 The Graeco-Roman connection ;
On the crossroads of disciplines: Tonio Hölschers theory of understanding
Roman art images and its implications for the study of western influence(s)
in Gandhran art Martina Stoye (29-49): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-3 ;
Roman sarcophagi and Gandharan sculpture Peter Stewart (50-85): DOI:
10.32028/9781789696950-4 ;
The transmission of Dionysiac imagery to Gandhran Buddhist art Tadashi
Tanabe (86-101): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-5 ;
Part 3 Asian influences ;
Buddha on the Rocks: Gandhran connections through the Karakorum mountains
M. E. J. J. van Aerde, A. D. L. Mohns, and A. G. Khan (105-134): DOI:
10.32028/9781789696950-6 ;
Buddhist temples in Tukhristn and their relationships with Gandhran
traditions Shumpei Iwai (135-155): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-7 ;
More Gandhra than Mathur: substantial and persistent Gandhran influences
provincialized in the Buddhist material culture of Gujarat and beyond, c. AD
400-550 Ken Ishikawa (156-204): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-8 ;
Part 4 Gandhra and China ;
Cross-cultural Buddhist monastery ruins on the Silk Road and beyond: the
layout and function of Buddhist monasteries reconsidered Joy Yi Lidu
(207-233): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-11 ;
The sinicization and secularization of some Graeco-Buddhist gods in China
Juping Yang (234-247): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-9 ;
Part 5 Epilogue ;
De-fragmenting Gandhran art: advancing analysis through digital imaging and
visualization Ian Haynes, Iwan Peverett, Wannaporn Rienjang with
contributions by Luca M. Olivieri (251-264): DOI: 10.32028/9781789696950-10
Wannaporn Rienjang obtained her doctorate in Archaeology from University of Cambridge. She is now Lecturer in Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Studies at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University and a project consultant for the Gandhra Connections Project at the Classical Art Research Centre, Oxford. Her research focuses on the art and archaeology of Greater Gandhra, Indian Ocean Trade and ancient working technologies of stone beads and vessels. ;
Peter Stewart is Director of the Classical Art Research Centre and Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He has worked widely in the field of ancient sculpture. His publications include Statues in Roman Society: Representation and Response (2003) and The Social History of Roman Art (2008). Much of his research concerns the relationship between Gandhran art and Roman sculpture.
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