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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:250091245
Author : Sonya S. Lee
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789622091252
The Buddha's nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. Surviving Nirvana is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China, of which the nirvana image has been a part for over 1,500 years. --Mining a selection of well-documented and well-preserved examples from the sixth to twelfth centuries, Sonya Lee offers a reassessment of medieval Chinese Buddhism by focusing on practices of devotion and image-making that were inspired by the Buddha's "complete extinction." The nirvana image, comprised of a reclining Buddha and a mourning audience, was central to defining the local meanings of the nirvana moment in different times and places. The motif's many guises, whether on a stone-carved stele, inside a pagoda crypt, or as a painted mural in a cave temple, were the product of social interactions, religious institutions, and artistic practices prevalent in a given historical context. They were also cogent responses to the fundamental anxiety about the absence of the Buddha and the prospect of one's salvation. By reinventing the nirvana image to address its own needs, each community of patrons, makers, and viewers sought to recast the Buddha's "death" into an allegory of survival that was charged with local pride and contemporary relevance.- -Thoroughly researched, this study engages methods and debates from the fields of art history, religion, archaeology, architecture, and East Asian history that are relevant to scholars and students alike. The many examples analyzed in the book offer well-defined local contexts to discuss broader historical and theoretical issues concerning representation, patronage, religion and politics, family values, and vision.--Sonya S. Lee is assistant professor of art history and East Asian languages and cultures at University of Southern California.-- -
Author : Dorothy C. Wong
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824861872
Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386–581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form—from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism’s dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods.
Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Buddhist art
ISBN : OCLC:4709667
Author : Lynn White (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 0195002660
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Author : Laurence G. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSC:32106006903147
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003682072
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112024526284
Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000768428
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082906499
Author : Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003681090
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433105310209
Author : University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015086905323
Author : Shane McCausland,Yin Hwang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888139439
The essays in this volume address a diverse range of issues in China’s narrative art and visual culture mainly from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) to the present. These studies attend to the complex ways in which images circulate in pictorial media and across boundaries between ‘high art’ and popular culture—images in paintings, prints, stone engravings and posters, as well as in film and video art. In addition, the authors examine the roles of ancient exemplary stories and textual narratives, as well as their reiteration in the visual arts in early modern and modern social and political contexts. The volume is divided into three sections: Representing Paradigms, Interpreting Literary Themes and Narratives, and the Medium and Modernity. While the essays in each section deal with concerns in the field of China’s art history, an editors’ introduction serves to position the topic of narrative art and to introduce definitions and genre issues which run through the book. As a whole, the volume invites reflection on the intrinsic nature of narratives and their pictorial lives, and presents new research which challenges established views and paradigms.
Author : Laurence G. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015057167135