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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kurt A. Behrendt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588392244
Author : Kurt Behrendt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781588396730
Intended to inspire the devout and provide a focus for religious practice, Buddhist artworks stand at the center of a great religious tradition that swept across Asia during the first millennia. How to Read Buddhist Art assembles fifty-four masterpieces from The Met collection to explore how images of the Buddha crossed linguistic and cultural barriers, and how they took on different (yet remarkably consistent) characteristics in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, China, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Works highlighted in this rich, concise overview include reliquaries, images of the Buddha that attempt to capture his transcendence, diverse bodhisattvas who protect and help the devout on their personal path, and representations of important teachers. The book offers the essential iconographic frameworks needed to understand Buddhist art and practice, helping the reader to appreciate how artists gave form to subtle aspects of the teachings, especially in the sublime expression of the Buddha himself.
Author : Kurt Behrendt,Pia Brancaccio
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774841283
The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, and artworks in the last decade have added new pieces to the Gandharan puzzle, redefining how we understand the region and its cultural complexity. The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region. By integrating archaeology, art history, numismatics, epigraphy, and textual sources, the contributors articulate the nature of Gandharan Buddhism and its practices, along with the significance of the relic tradition. Contributions by several giants in the field, including Shoshin Kuwayama, John Rosenfield, and the late Maurizio Taddei, set the geographical, historical, and archaeological parameters for the collection. The result is a productive interdisciplinary conversation on the enigmatic nature of Gandharan Buddhism that joins together a number of significant pieces in a complex cultural mosaic. It will appeal to a large and diverse readership, including those interested in the early Buddhist religious tradition of Asia and its art, as well as specialists in the study of South and Central Asian Buddhist art, archaeology, and texts. A Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Denise Patry Leidy,Donna K. Strahan
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist sculpture
ISBN : 9781588393999
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Author : Adriana G. Proser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878481125
Author : Steven Kossak,Edith Whitney Watts
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, South Asian
ISBN : 9780870999925
Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.
Author : Kathryn Calley Galitz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847846597
This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.
Author : Benjamin Rowland,Asia Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : UCAL:B3573365
Exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. An account of the sculptural art of Gandhara, the name of an ancient province, northwest of Peshawar, Pakistan, whose artists adapted their Buddhist imagery from Graeco-Roman models of the west.
Author : Kurt Behrendt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588395498
Author : Wannaporn Rienjang,Peter Stewart
Publisher : Archaeopress
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789691870
Gandhāran art is usually regarded as a single phenomenon – a unified regional artistic tradition or 'school'. Indeed it has distinctive visual characteristics, materials, and functions, and is characterized by its extensive borrowings from the Graeco-Roman world. Yet this tradition is also highly varied. Even the superficial homogeneity of Gandhāran sculpture, which constitutes the bulk of documented artistic material from this region in the early centuries AD, belies a considerable range of styles, technical approaches, iconographic choices, and levels of artistic skill. The geographical variations in Gandhāran art have received less attention than they deserve. Many surviving Gandhāran artefacts are unprovenanced and the difficulty of tracing substantial assemblages of sculpture to particular sites has obscured the fine-grained picture of its artistic geography. Well documented modern excavations at particular sites and areas, such as the projects of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Swat Valley, have demonstrated the value of looking at sculptures in context and considering distinctive aspects of their production, use, and reuse within a specific locality. However, insights of this kind have been harder to gain for other areas, including the Gandhāran heartland of the Peshawar basin. Even where large collections of artworks can be related to individual sites, the exercise of comparing material within and between these places is still at an early stage. The relationship between the Gandhāran artists or 'workshops', particular stone sources, and specific sites is still unclear. Addressing these and other questions, this second volume of the Gandhara Connections project at Oxford University’s Classical Art Research Centre presents the proceedings of a workshop held in March 2018. Its aim is to pick apart the regional geography of Gandhāran art, presenting new discoveries at particular sites, textual evidence, and the challenges and opportunities of exploring Gandhāra’s artistic geography.
Author : Peter Stewart
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781803276953
This book offers an introduction to Gandharan art and the mystery of its relationship with the Graeco-Roman world of the Mediterranean. It presents an accessible explanation of the ancient and modern contexts of Gandharan art, the state of scholarship on the subject, and guidance for further, in-depth study.
Author : Michael Hann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781472539007
Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry: The Cultural Significance of Structure investigates how pattern and symbol has functioned in visual arts, exploring how connections and comparisons in geometrical pattern can be made across different cultures and how the significance of these designs has influenced craft throughout history. The book features illustrative examples of symbol and pattern from a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, from Byzantine, Persian and Assyrian design, to case studies of Japanese and Chinese patterns. Looking at each culture's specific craft style, Hann shows how the visual arts are underpinned with a strict geometric structure, and argues that understanding these underlying structures enables us to classify and compare data from across cultures and historical periods. Richly illustrated with both colour and black and white images, and with clear, original commentary, the book enables students, practitioners, teachers and researchers to explore the historical and cultural significance of symbol and pattern in craft and design, ultimately displaying how a geometrical dialogue in design can be established through history and culture.
Author : Sir John Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040790714
Author : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann,Catherine Dossin,Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317166153
The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach. This volume emphasizes questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations. It presents a strategy that highlights the processes and connections among cultures, and also responds to the dynamics at work in the current globalized art world. The editors’ introduction provides an account of the historical background to this approach to global art history, stresses the inseparable bond of theory and practice, and suggests a revaluation of materialist historicism as an underlying premise. Individual contributions to the book provide an overview of current reflection and research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of methods and approaches to the treatment of different periods, regions, and objects, surveying both questions of historiography and methodology and presenting individual case studies. An 'Afterword' by James Elkins gives a critique of the present project. The book thus deliberately leaves discussion open, inviting future responses to the large questions it poses.
Author : Joan Aruz,Elisabetta Valtz Fino
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 9781588394521
Afghanistan, standing at the crossroads of major trade routes, has a long and complex history. Its rich cultural heritage bears the imprint of many traditions, from Greece and Iran to the nomadic world of the Eurasian steppes and China. The essays in this volume concentrate on periods of great artistic development: the Bactrian Bronze Age and the eras following the conquests of Alexander the Great, with a special focus on the sites of Ai Khanum, Begram, and Tillya Tepe. These contributions -- in response to the reappearance of the magnificent hidden treasures from Afghanistan and their exhibition -- have shed new light on the significance of these works and have reinvigorated the discussion of the arts and culture of Central Asia. -- Publisher description.