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OverviewBuddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments. She traces the ancient roots of the Chinese stele tradition and investigates the process by which Chinese steles were adapted for Buddhist use. She arranges the known corpus of Buddhist steles into broad chronological and regional groupings and analyzes not only their form and content but also the nexus of complex issues surrounding this art form - from cultural symbolism to the interrelations between religious doctrine and artistic expression, economic production, patronage, and the synthesis of native and foreign art styles. In her analysis of Buddhism's dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dorothy C. WongPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press Dimensions: Width: 21.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.730kg ISBN: 9780824827830ISBN 10: 082482783 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 31 October 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAn exceptional work, useful for those unfamiliar with the genre of steles yet thorough enough to satisfy a scholarly need for depth ... Extremely thorough in its analysis and clear in its approach-- CAA.reviews An elegant volume, amply illustrated, and the photographs are on the whole very clear, carefully placed in the text, and well elucidated-- H-Buddhism An elegant volume, amply illustrated, and the photographs are on the whole very clear, carefully placed in the text, and well elucidated-- H-Buddhism An elegant volume, amply illustrated, and the photographs are on the whole very clear, carefully placed in the text, and well elucidated-- <i>H-Buddhism</i> Author InformationDorothy C. Wong is associate professor of East Asian art at the University of Virginia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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