Author: Chandra L. Reedy
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874135701
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Himalayan Bronzes focuses on a complete study of 340 medieval-period copper alloy sculptures from the Himalayan regions of Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, and Tibet. For more than 1,500 years, artists in isolated valleys in and adjacent to the mountains of the Himalayas have created magnificent copper-based statues representing deities and spiritual leaders of the Hindu, Buddhist and Bon-Po religions. Author Chandra L. Reedy's multidisciplinary approach to the study of these statues integrates methods and techniques from art history, art conservation, geology, chemistry, statistics, archaeology, and ethnography to answer art historical and anthropological questions. Her guiding premise is that gathering and combining several types of information will result in more and better answers than any one type alone.
Himalayan Bronzes
Author: Chandra L. Reedy
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874135701
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Himalayan Bronzes focuses on a complete study of 340 medieval-period copper alloy sculptures from the Himalayan regions of Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, and Tibet. For more than 1,500 years, artists in isolated valleys in and adjacent to the mountains of the Himalayas have created magnificent copper-based statues representing deities and spiritual leaders of the Hindu, Buddhist and Bon-Po religions. Author Chandra L. Reedy's multidisciplinary approach to the study of these statues integrates methods and techniques from art history, art conservation, geology, chemistry, statistics, archaeology, and ethnography to answer art historical and anthropological questions. Her guiding premise is that gathering and combining several types of information will result in more and better answers than any one type alone.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874135701
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Himalayan Bronzes focuses on a complete study of 340 medieval-period copper alloy sculptures from the Himalayan regions of Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, and Tibet. For more than 1,500 years, artists in isolated valleys in and adjacent to the mountains of the Himalayas have created magnificent copper-based statues representing deities and spiritual leaders of the Hindu, Buddhist and Bon-Po religions. Author Chandra L. Reedy's multidisciplinary approach to the study of these statues integrates methods and techniques from art history, art conservation, geology, chemistry, statistics, archaeology, and ethnography to answer art historical and anthropological questions. Her guiding premise is that gathering and combining several types of information will result in more and better answers than any one type alone.
Himalayan Architecture
Author: Ronald M. Bernier
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636022
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest. These areas make up an artistic and, to some degree, a cultural unit. It is unique and definable for its design qualities as well as its use of materials. Dramatic and lofty structures rise as towering palaces and as temples dedicated to Hindu and Buddhist ideals. The impact of neighboring Tibet and India is often evident in the art, but other influences are found as well. The area has not been isolated, as some studies suggest, but was in fact always linked to the rest of Asia and to the West by means of the Silk Road, at least since the second century B.C. This study progresses from east to west, beginning in the foothills of India's Assam. It is richly illustrated with photographs, most of which are the author's or his wife's, and many of the photographs are published here for the first time. The archives of the Archaeological Survey of India and the Department of Archaeology of His Majesty's Government of Nepal are also used here.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636022
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest. These areas make up an artistic and, to some degree, a cultural unit. It is unique and definable for its design qualities as well as its use of materials. Dramatic and lofty structures rise as towering palaces and as temples dedicated to Hindu and Buddhist ideals. The impact of neighboring Tibet and India is often evident in the art, but other influences are found as well. The area has not been isolated, as some studies suggest, but was in fact always linked to the rest of Asia and to the West by means of the Silk Road, at least since the second century B.C. This study progresses from east to west, beginning in the foothills of India's Assam. It is richly illustrated with photographs, most of which are the author's or his wife's, and many of the photographs are published here for the first time. The archives of the Archaeological Survey of India and the Department of Archaeology of His Majesty's Government of Nepal are also used here.
Small Bronze Sculpture from the Ancient World
Author:
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236176X
Category : Bronze figurines, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Historical and technical considerations in provenancing and collecting Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236176X
Category : Bronze figurines, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Historical and technical considerations in provenancing and collecting Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes.
Indian Sculpture
Author: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780875871295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780875871295
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Museum of Art
Author: Dallas Museum of Art
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300149883
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India's Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former Ottoman empire to Java, and architectural pieces suggest the grandeur of buildings in the Indian tradition. This volume details the cultural and artistic significance of more than 140 featured works, which range from Tibetan thangkas and Indian miniature paintings to stone sculptures and bronzes. Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300149883
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India's Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former Ottoman empire to Java, and architectural pieces suggest the grandeur of buildings in the Indian tradition. This volume details the cultural and artistic significance of more than 140 featured works, which range from Tibetan thangkas and Indian miniature paintings to stone sculptures and bronzes. Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
The Craftsman Revealed
Author: Jane L. Bassett
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369191
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unknown until the J. Paul Getty Museum's groundbreaking 1999 exhibition, Adriaen de Vries: Imperial Sculptor, which firmly established the artist's reputation and afforded a rare opportunity to study in depth a large group of bronzes. This heavily illustrated volume presents the results of the technical study of twenty-five bronzes from the exhibition. Introductory chapters provide background on the artist and technical methodologies. Subsequent chapters present case studies of individual statues, revealing the methods and materials used in their creation"--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369191
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unknown until the J. Paul Getty Museum's groundbreaking 1999 exhibition, Adriaen de Vries: Imperial Sculptor, which firmly established the artist's reputation and afforded a rare opportunity to study in depth a large group of bronzes. This heavily illustrated volume presents the results of the technical study of twenty-five bronzes from the exhibition. Introductory chapters provide background on the artist and technical methodologies. Subsequent chapters present case studies of individual statues, revealing the methods and materials used in their creation"--Publisher's website.
Abia South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
Author: Karel R. Van Kooij
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136176411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
This volume is the first tangible result of an international project initiated by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) with the aim of compiling a bibliographic database documenting publications on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. The bibliographic information, over 1,300 records extracted from the database, forms the principal part of this publication. It is preceded by a list of periodicals consulted and followed by three types of indexes which help users to find their way in the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA Index). The detailed bibliographic descriptions, controlled keywords and many elucidating annotations make this reference work into an indispensable guide to recent scholarly work on the prehistory and arts of South/Southeast Asia.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136176411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
This volume is the first tangible result of an international project initiated by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) with the aim of compiling a bibliographic database documenting publications on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. The bibliographic information, over 1,300 records extracted from the database, forms the principal part of this publication. It is preceded by a list of periodicals consulted and followed by three types of indexes which help users to find their way in the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA Index). The detailed bibliographic descriptions, controlled keywords and many elucidating annotations make this reference work into an indispensable guide to recent scholarly work on the prehistory and arts of South/Southeast Asia.
Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art
Author: Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0893469629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Two volumes of the essential and definitive survey of Chinese and Japanese art in one book.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN: 0893469629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Two volumes of the essential and definitive survey of Chinese and Japanese art in one book.
Wisdom Embodied
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393992
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393992
Category : Buddhist sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art
Author: Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description