Object Notes

In his images of the bustling streets and diverse crowds of downtown Dallas, George Grosz relies on his facility with the depiction of social type, honed during his career as a satirist in Berlin.

This rearing man-lion exemplifies the monstrous guardian figure in South Asian art.

This elegant painting by Shibata Zeshin illustrates the story of a man who found a young girl while he was cutting bamboo. He raised the young girl, and when she became mature she was so beautiful that many men, including the emperor, wanted to marry her. But she was not made for the human world.

The Yayoi period marks a time of technological advances in ceramics, such as the ability to fire at higher temperatures. Aesthetically severe, Yayoi period pottery has none of the effusive decoration made by the Jomon people, the style of which preceded the Yayoi.

The Khmer king Yashovarman (r. 889-early 10th century CE) moved the kingdom's capital from Hariharalaya to the site today known as Angkor to establish his kingdom of Yashodharapura.