Frederick M Asher

Biographic Data

ID1246620
NAMEFrederick M Asher
GIVEN NAMESFrederick M
FAMILY NAMEAsher
SIGNATUREASHER F M
AFFILIATIONSTwin Cities Orthopedics
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Defining Questions about Metal Images in Southeast Asia

    Frederick M Asher, Frederick AsherARTICLEWest 86th2021

  • Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began

    Frederick M AsherBOOKSarnath2020Cited by: 1

  • India, Magadha, Nalanda: Ecology and a Premodern World System

    Frederick M Asher, Frederick AsherCHAPTERRecords, Recoveries, Remnants and…2018

  • Travels of a Reliquary, Its Contents Separated at Birth

    Frederick M AsherARTICLESouth Asian Studies2012

    This paper presents the discovery and travels of relics assumed to be those of the Buddha and the small bronze reliquary that housed them, one that, despite its small size and inelegant appearance, has been the focus of a great deal of scholarship, mostly intended to determine its date and authorship. The paper focuses especially on the reliquary's elusive nature: the relics it housed were sent away, the inscription's interpretation is contested,…

  • La culture visuelle de l'Océan indien: L'Inde dans un monde polycentré

    Frederick M AsherARTICLEDiogène2011References: 2

    What India produced others wanted. Others therefore wanted India. Although this by no means entirely explains India’s role in a polycentric world, it explains a great deal. It also helps us understand India as a fulcrum, at least within Indian Ocean trade. That is, the means by which India’s visual products became known and then coveted as well as the means by which India absorbed visual products from other centers of the world long before the ag…

  • Visual Culture of the Indian Ocean: India in a polycentric world

    Open AccessFrederick M AsherARTICLEDiogenes2011References: 4

    What India produced others wanted. Others therefore wanted India. Although this by no means entirely explains India's role in a polycentric world, it explains a great deal. It also helps us understand India as a fulcrum, at least within Indian Ocean trade. That is, the means by which India's visual products became known and then coveted as well as the means by which India absorbed visual products from other centers of the world long before the ag…

  • From Place to Site: Locations of the Buddha's Life

    Frederick M Asher, Frederick AsherARTICLEArtibus Asiae2009

    FREDERICK ASHER, FROM PLACE TO SITE: LOCATIONS OF THE BUDDHA'S LIFE, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 69, No. 2, "To My Mind": Studies in South Asian Art History in Honor of Joanna Gottfried Williams. Part I (2009), pp. 233-245

  • The Bodhgaya Temple: Whose Structure Is It

    Frederick M Asher, Frederick AsherARTICLEReligion and the Arts2004

    T HE B ODHGAYA T EMPLE : W HOSE S TRUCTURE I S I T ? F REDERICK M. A SHER University of Minnesota A s one approaches the site of Bodhgaya, where Sakyamuni attained supreme Enlightenment and thereby became the Buddha, one mon- ument towers above the relatively fl at landscape. This is the Mahabodhi Temple, a structure that has come to symbolize the center of the reli- gion that we now call Buddhism. More than any other site associated with the fai…

  • Sankasya

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Indian subcontinent: Sculpture from the 4th–6th centuries

    Frederick M Asher, Cynthia Packert Atherton et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Kausambi

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Lumbini

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Nalanda

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Indian subcontinent: Sculpture from prehistory to the 3rd century

    Frederick M Asher, Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Paharpur

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Lauriya Nandangarh

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Kushinagara

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Vaishali

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Sarnath

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Sravasti

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Bodhgaya

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Antichak

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Rajgir

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Bagh

    Frederick M AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Shaping Contestation: The Katra Mound of Mathura

    Frederick M AsherARTICLEThresholds2002Cited by: 2

    October 01 2019 Shaping Contestation: The Katra Mound of Mathura Frederick M. Asher Frederick M. Asher Frederick Asher is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota. He recently completed two terms as President of the American Institute of Indian Studies and chairs the Institute's board. His research includes sculpture in Eastern India and contemporary artists working in traditional modes. His most recent work, Art of India, was publ…