TY  - GEN
T1  - Empire of emptiness : Buddhist art and political authority in Qing China
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Berger, Patricia Ann
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaii Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52859385
AB  - 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.
OP  - 266
CN  - N8193.C6 B47 2003eb
SN  - 0585464103
SN  - 9780585464107
SN  - 9780824862367
SN  - 0824862368
SN  - 0824825632
SN  - 9780824825638
KW  - Buddhist art : China.
KW  - Buddhist art and symbolism : China.
KW  - Art, Chinese : Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
KW  - Art and state : China : History.
KW  - Buddhism : China : Tibet Autonomous Region : Influence.
KW  - Art bouddhique : Chine.
KW  - Art : Politique gouvernementale : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - ART : Asian.
KW  - ART : Art & Politics.
KW  - Art and state
KW  - Art, Chinese
KW  - Buddhism : Influence
KW  - Buddhist art
KW  - Buddhist art and symbolism
KW  - Qing Dynasty (China)
KW  - China
KW  - China : Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - Qingdynastie
KW  - Staat
KW  - Buddhistische Kunst
KW  - 1644-1912
KW  - History
ER  -