Buddhist Art Forum (2012 : Courtauld Institute of Art)
Title:
Art of merit : studies in Buddhist art and its conservation : proceedings of the Buddhist Art Forum 2012 / edited by David Park, Kuenga Wangmo and Sharon Cather.
Publisher:
Archetype Publications,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xxii, 394 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
"Four-day conference held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, from 11 to 14 June, 2012"--Page vii. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Presenting the Buddha : images, conventions, and significance in early Indian Buddhism / Juhyung Rhi -- Buddha's stūpa and image : in search of the ultimate icon / Tadeusz Skorupski -- Rhetoric of reward, ideologies of inducement : why produce Buddhist 'art'? / Peter Skilling -- Art in the dark : the ritual context of Buddhist caves in western China / Robert Sharf -- Painted and architectural ornamentation of the temples of Pagan : more than mere iconography and decoration / Claudine Bautze-Picron -- The problem of authenticity : a historical geography of Buddhist art in eighteenth-century China / Patricia Berger -- The oracle and temple of Lamochok : aspects of history and iconography / Matthew T. Kapstein -- The wailing arhats : Buddhism, photography and resistance in modern China / Francesca Tarocco -- Conserving the Buddhist wall paintings of Bamiyan in Afghanistan : practical issues and dilemmas / Yoko Taniguchi -- Buddhist wall paintings in context : the foundation for future scholarship / Susan Whitfield -- Dunhuang Grotto Buddhist art and its preventive conservation / Wang Xudong -- Applying the China Principles : The Getty Conservation Institute's work at Dunhuang and Chengde in China / Lori Wong, Martha Demas and Neville Agnew -- Conservation and research in Buddhist art from an art-historical perspective / Christian Luczanits -- Sumda Chun and other early Buddhist wall paintings in Ladakh : practical and ethical conservation issues from failing structures to obscuring surface layers / Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran, Sreekumar Menon and Maninder Singh Gill -- Relationship of conservation to the functions of monuments, with reference to Buddhism in Bhutan / Dorjee Tshering -- Buddhist wall paintings of Bhutan : material traditions and conservation realities / Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby -- A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa : a major addition to the corpus of early fifteenth-century bronzes / John Clarke -- A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa : technical investigations and conservation / Diana Heath -- The Buddha and his brothers : expressions of power, place and community by the network of Mahāmuni images of Arakan, Bangladesh and Burma / Pyi Phyo Kyaw and Kate Crosby -- Buddhist strategies of keeping its sacred images and shrines alive : the example of the Svayambhū caitya of Kathmandu / Alexander von Rospatt -- Materiality of devotion : Tibetan Buddhist shrines of the western Himalaya / Melissa R. Kerin -- The pilgrimage to Bangajang : a devotional circuit in the eastern Himalayas / T. Richard Blurton -- Sacred art : on the path to wisdom and compassion / Matthieu Ricard -- Re-inscribing Mount Myohyang : from Pohyŏn Temple to the International Friendship Exhibition / Marsha Haufler -- Why collect Tibetan art? / Alice S. Kandell -- Buddhist art in an Ando building / Francesca Consagra -- Revisiting The third mind : the Buddhist imaginary in modern American art / Alexandra Munroe -- Sculpture of mindfulness / Antony Gormley.
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