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Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China |
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Berger, Patricia Ann
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| Date | 2003.01 |
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| Publisher | netLibrary, Inc. |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | File Format & Size：netLibrary |
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| Keyword | 佛教藝術=Buddhist Art; 政教關係=Buddhism and Politics; 清代佛教=Qing Buddhism=Ch'ing Buddhism; 中國佛教史=Chinese Buddhist History |
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| Abstract | Berger challenges the conventional dismissal of imperial Manchu support for Buddhism as cynical political manipulation by examining the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership and how central images were in the court's rhetoric toward its Buddhist allies in Mongolia and Tibet. She finds the Qing Qianlong emperor (ruled 176395) to be the greatest Buddhist patron of his lineage.
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.
Their pictorial，sculptural and architectural projects escape easy analysis and raise questions about the nature of hybridity commensurability of different visual styles difference between verbal and pictorial description 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."
The book 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. |
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| ISBN | 0585464103 |
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| Hits | 430 |
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| Created date | 2003.12.31
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| Modified date | 2010.10.05 |
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