Halle O’Neal is Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
摘要
In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O’Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the previous scholarship on these paintings concentrates on formal analysis and iconographic study of their narrative vignettes. This has marginalized the intriguing interplay of text and image at their heart, precluding a holistic understanding of the mandalas and diluting their full import in Buddhist visual culture. Word Embodied offers an alternative methodology, developing interdisciplinary insights into the social, religious, and artistic implications of this provocative entwining of word and image. O’Neal unpacks the paintings’ revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of relics, reliquaries, scripture, and body in religious doctrine, practice, and art. Word Embodied also expands our thinking about the demands of viewing, recasting the audience as active producers of meaning and offering a novel perspective on disciplinary discussions of word and image that often presuppose an ontological divide between them. This examination of the jeweled pagoda mandalas, therefore, recovers crucial dynamics underlying Japanese Buddhist art, including invisibility, performative viewing, and the spectacular visualizations of embodiment.
目次
Preliminary Material i - xviii Introduction 1 - 20 Performance and Iconicity in the Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas 21 - 52 The Historical Context of the Mandalas 53 - 121 Medieval Textual Images 122 - 167 Dharma Relics in Medieval Japan 168 - 192 Buddhist Reliquaries and Somatic Profusions 193 - 217 Creating a Salvific Matrix of Text and Body 218 - 236 Names and Terms 237 - 243 Abbreviations 244 Notes 245 - 266 Bibliography 267 - 282 Index 283 - 292 Harvard East Asian Monographs 293 - 294
