Susan L Huntington

Biographic Data

ID1035227
NAMESusan L Huntington
GIVEN NAMESSusan L
FAMILY NAMEHuntington
SIGNATUREHUNTINGTON S L
AFFILIATIONSThe Ohio State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX0

  • Shifting the Paradigm

    Susan L HuntingtonARTICLESouth Asian Studies2015

    Focusing on imagery that purportedly depicts life events of Śākyamuni Buddha, this essay examines the terms ‘iconic’ and ‘aniconic’ as they have been applied to interpreting the early Buddhist art of India. In this context, ‘iconic’ has been used to refer to a figurative depiction of Śākyamuni Buddha; the antonym, ‘aniconic,’ has been used to refer to trees, stūpas, pillars, and other non-human subjects that are claimed to be substitutions for th…

  • Indian subcontinent

    Cynthia Packert Atherton, Andrew L Cohen et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Early Buddhist Art and the Theory of Aniconism

    Susan L HuntingtonARTICLEArt Journal1990

    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European and Indian scholars were puzzled by the absence of anthropomorphic representations of the historical Buddha Śākyamuni in the earliest surviving Buddhist art. Early Buddhist art, it was assumed, either avoided Buddha images entirely, or favored the use of symbols to refer to the Buddha or important events in the Buddha's life. For example, the depiction of a specific tree in early ston…

  • The "Pāla-Sena" Schools of Sculpture

    Rekha Morris, Susan L Huntington et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1985

  • Painters at the Sikh Court

    Susan L Huntington, Brijinder Nath GoswamyARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1980

  • An Approach to Indian Art

    Susan L Huntington, Niharranjan RayARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1976