From India East presents sculptures from the Asian art collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The works were chosen by the Rubin Museum’s curators to trace the development of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture back to its roots in the art of ancient India. The year-long exhibition includes art from Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. The loan was made possible by the Brooklyn Museum’s temporary closing of its Asian art galleries.

The Rubin Museum made a selection of objects according to a concept that connects with its own collection: tracing back the origins of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural art in Asia to its roots, showing the stylistic evolution by both geographic distribution and time period. This means that the oldest examples of Indian art, be they Buddhist or Hindu in origin, have been chosen as various kinds of prototypes by which a more wide-spread evolution of Asian art can be identified.

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Related images
  1. Vasudhara. Nepal, 16th century. Polychromed wood, 49 x 23 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Bertram H. Schaffner
  2. Head of Shiva. Cambodia, style of Preah Ko, first quarter of 10th century. Sandstone, 7 ½ x 3 ¾ in. Brooklyn Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael De Havenon
  3. Standing Female. Pakistan (Sirkap or Charsadda), Kushan period, 1st century A.D.. Terracotta, 6 7/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Georgia and Michael de Havenon
  4. & 6. Head of a Guardian. Japan, Kamakura period, 13th century. Hinoki wood with polychrome, inlaid rock crystal eyes and filigree metal crown, 22 1/16 x 10 ¼ x 13 15/16 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alistair B. Martin, the Guennol Collection
  5. Head and Torso of a Buddha. Thailand, Sukhothai period, 14th century. Bronze, 38 x 22 x 11 in. Brooklyn Museum, purchased with funds given by the Charles Bloom Foundation, Inc., in memory of Mildred and Charles B.