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Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings=晚期緬甸皇朝寺廟壁畫的佛教視覺文化，修辭與敘事 |
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Alexandra , Green
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| Date | 2018.01 |
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| Pages | 248 |
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| Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
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https://www.hkupress.hku.hk
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| Location | Hong Kong [香港] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings displays Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha’s teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his community, with the aim of transforming the devotees’ current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged. Green’s visits to more than 160 sites with identifiable subject matter form the basis of this richly illustrated volume, which draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze the wall paintings and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction
1. A Formula to Honor the Buddha
2. Presence and Memory: Commemoration of the Buddha
3. Art as Action: Representation as Ritual
4. Word and Image: Expanding Vernacular Narratives
Conclusion
Appendix of Late Sites
Glossary
Bibliography
Index |
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| ISBN | 9789888390885 (hardcover) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings by Alexandra Green / Miksic, John N. (評論)
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| Created date | 2018.09.25 |
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| Modified date | 2018.09.25 |
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