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Chinese Religious Art
Author | : Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780739180600 |
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Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical eras including the Shang dynasty (1300-1050 BCE) and Zhou Dynasty(1000-221 BCE) up until the era of the First Emperor (221-210 BCE) Part Two treats Confucianism as a religious tradition examining its scriptures, images, temples and rituals. Adopted as the state ideology in the Han dynasty, Confucian ideas permeated society for over two thousand years. Filial piety, ethical behavior and other principles shaped the pictorial arts. Part Three considers the various schools of Daoist belief and their expression in art. The ideas of a utopian society and the pursuit of immortality characterize this religion from its earliest phase. Daoism has an elaborate pantheon and ritualistic art, as well as a secular tradition best expressed in monochrome ink painting. Part Four covers the development of Buddhist art beginning with its entry into China in the second century. Its monuments—comprised largely of cave temples carved high in the mountains along the frontiers of China and large metropolitan temples —provide evidence of its evolution including the adoption of savior cults of the Buddha of the Western Paradise, the Buddha of the Future, the rise of Ch’an (Zen) and esoteric Buddhism. In their development, these various religious traditions interacted, sharing art, architecture, iconography and rituals. By the twelfth century a stage of syncretism merged all three traditions into a popular religion. All the religions are reviving after their extirpation during the Cultural Revolution. Using historical records and artistic evidence, much of which has not been published, this study examines their individual and shared manner of worshipping the divine forces.
Religion and Prison Art in Ming China 1368 1644
Author | : Ying Zhang |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004432291 |
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Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture.
Christian Art in Asia
Author | : William A. Dyrness |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9062037321 |
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Taoism and the Arts of China
Author | : Stephen Little,Shawn Eichman,Kristofer Shipper,Patricia Buckley Ebrey |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520227859 |
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A celebration of Taoist art traces the influence of philosophy on the visual arts in China.
An Introduction to Chinese Art
Author | : Michael Sullivan |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Latter Days of the Law
Author | : Patricia Ann Berger,Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art,Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0824816625 |
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The Heavenly Court
Author | : Lennert Gesterkamp |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2011-03-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789004190238 |
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This book offers a comprehensive investigation into the history, iconography, ritual context, design, and personalisations by patrons of four Daoist temple paintings depicting a theme called Heavenly Court painting (chaoyuan tu) in China of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism
Author | : Marsha Smith Weidner |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824823087 |
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This collection of essays on later Chinese Buddhism takes us beyond the bedrock subjects of traditional Buddhist historiography - scriptures and commentaries, sectarian developments, lives of notable monks - to examine a wide range of extracanonical materials that illuminate cultural manifestations of Buddhism from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the modern period. Straying from well-trodden paths, the authors often transgress the boundaries of their own disciplines: historians address architecture; art historians look to politics; a specialist in literature treats poetry that offers gendered insights into Buddhist lives. The broad-based cultural orientation of this volume is predicated on the recognition that art and religion are not closed systems requiring only minimal cross-indexing with other social or aesthetic phenomena but constituent elements in interlocking networks of practice and belief.