Rosch Petra
Rosch Petra - Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Cent Images Of Water Moon Guanyin In Northern Chinese Temples And Western Collections - Paperback
Rosch Petra - Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Cent Images Of Water Moon Guanyin In Northern Chinese Temples And Western Collections - Paperback
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Description: Chinese Buddhist wooden sculptures of Water - moon Guanyin a Bodhisattva sitting in a leisurely reclining pose on a rocky throne are housed in Western collections and are thus removed from their original context(s). Not only are most of them of unknown origin but also do lack a precise date. Tracing their sources is moreover difficult because of the scant information provided by art dealers in previous periods. Thus only preliminary investigations into their stylistic development and technical features have been made so far. Moreover until recently none of the Chinese temples that provided their original context i. e. their precise/exact/specific position within those temple compounds and their respective place in the Buddhist pantheon have been examined at all. In her study Petra H R sch investigates these very aspects including questions about the religious position and function of the sculptures of this special Bodhisattva. She also looks at the technical construction the collecting of Chinese Buddhist sculptures in general and those sculptures made of wood in particular. She uses a combination of stylistic iconographical buddhological as well as technical methodologies in her investigation of the Water - moon Guanyin images and sheds light on the Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province the works of art they once housed and the religious practices of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries connected with them.
Title: Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Cent Images Of Water Moon Guanyin In Northern Chinese Temples And Western Collections
Author(s): Rosch Petra
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783898216623
Pages: 386 Pages
Publication Date: 11/16/2007
Category: The Arts: General Issues
Description: Chinese Buddhist wooden sculptures of Water - moon Guanyin a Bodhisattva sitting in a leisurely reclining pose on a rocky throne are housed in Western collections and are thus removed from their original context(s). Not only are most of them of unknown origin but also do lack a precise date. Tracing their sources is moreover difficult because of the scant information provided by art dealers in previous periods. Thus only preliminary investigations into their stylistic development and technical features have been made so far. Moreover until recently none of the Chinese temples that provided their original context i. e. their precise/exact/specific position within those temple compounds and their respective place in the Buddhist pantheon have been examined at all. In her study Petra H R sch investigates these very aspects including questions about the religious position and function of the sculptures of this special Bodhisattva. She also looks at the technical construction the collecting of Chinese Buddhist sculptures in general and those sculptures made of wood in particular. She uses a combination of stylistic iconographical buddhological as well as technical methodologies in her investigation of the Water - moon Guanyin images and sheds light on the Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province the works of art they once housed and the religious practices of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries connected with them.
Title: Chinese Wood Sculptures Of The 11th To 13th Cent Images Of Water Moon Guanyin In Northern Chinese Temples And Western Collections
Author(s): Rosch Petra
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783898216623
Pages: 386 Pages
Publication Date: 11/16/2007
Category: The Arts: General Issues
