عنوان

Empire of emptiness :

(Number (ISBN

0824825632

(Number (ISBN

9780824825638

Number

b522366

Title Proper

Empire of emptiness :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Buddhist art and political authority in Qing China /

First Statement of Responsibility

Patricia Berger

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawaii Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2003

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 266 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color), map ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index

Text of Note

Like a cloudless sky -- When words collide -- Artful collecting -- Remembering the future -- Pious copies -- Resemblance and recognition

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Text of Note

"Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particulary in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts that Qing court artists produced for distribution throughout the empire. It examines some of the Buddhist underpinning 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 multi-lingual, 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

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Their pictorial, sculptural, and architectural projects escape easy analysis and raise questions about the nature of hybridity, the commensurability of different visual styles, 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." "Empire of Emptiness will be welcomed by art historians, cultural and institutional historians, students of Buddhist history and practice, and readers interested in the history of the now-troubled relationship between China and its border regions."--Jacket

Art and state-- China-- History

Art, Chinese-- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912

Buddhism-- China-- Tibet Autonomous Region-- Influence

Buddhist art and symbolism-- China

Buddhist art-- China

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Edition

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Book number

Berger, Patricia Ann

Date of Transaction

20160712071345.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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