Empire of emptiness : Buddhist art and political authority in Qing China /
Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a fresh look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Qing...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press
2003.
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| Edice: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wr2tf |
| Shrnutí: | Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a fresh look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Qing court artists produced for distribution throughout the empire. It examines some of the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership and shows just how central images were in the carefully reasoned rhetoric the court directed toward its Buddhist allies in inner Asia. The multilingual, culturally fluid Qing emperors put an extraordinary range of visual styles into practice--Chinese, Tibetan, Nepalese, and even the European Baroque brought to the court by Jesuit artists. Their pictorial, sculptural, and architectural projects escape easy analysis and raise questions about the difference between verbal and pictorial description, the ways in which overt and covert meaning could be embedded in images through juxtaposition and collage, and the collection and criticism of paintings and calligraphy that were intended as supports for practice and not initially as works of art. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations (some color), map |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585464103 9780585464107 9780824862367 0824862368 0824825632 9780824825638 |