Author: Nicolaas Johannes KromPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borobudur (Indonesia)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Life of Buddha on the Stūpa of Barabudur
Author: Nicolaas Johannes KromPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borobudur (Indonesia)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A Short Guide to the Sanctuary of Barabudur
Author: SoeharsonoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borobudur (Indonesia : Temple)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Borobudur
Author: John MiksicPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462909108
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
With vivid photography and insightful commentary, this travel pictorial shines a light on the Buddhist art and architecture of Borobudur. The glorious ninth-century Buddhist stupa of Borobudur--the largest Buddhist monument in the world--stands in the midst of the lush Kedu Plain of Central Java in Indonesia, where it is visited annually by over a million people. Borobudur contains more than a thousand exquisitely carved relief panels extending along its many terraces for a total distance of more than a kilometer. These are arranged so as to take the visitor on a spiritual journey to enlightenment, and one ascends the monument past scenes depicting the world of desire, the life story of Buddha, and the heroic deeds of other enlightened beings--finally arriving at the great circular terraces at the top of the structure that symbolizes the formless world of pure knowledge and perfection.
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Catalogue of a very important collection of books and periodical sets on the Indian Archipelago
Author: Martinus NijhoffPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401534004
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Historiography of Indian Art
Author: Balram SrivastavaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Contributed papers presented at the Seminar.
Entering the Dharmadh?tu
Author: Jan FonteinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
New identifications of the 460 bas-reliefs of Borobudur illustrating the Gandavy?ha, based upon a comparison with the contents of three early Chinese translations of Sanskrit manuscripts of the text of Central Asian or Indian provenance.
The Indianized States of Southeast Asia
Author: George CoedèsPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824803681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.
Buddhist India
Author: The Death of Authentic Primitive Art
Author: Shelly ErringtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520920341
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cultural critics, have died as concepts. At the same time, the penetration of nation-states, the tourist industry, and transnational corporations into regions that formerly produced these artifacts has severely reduced supplies of "primitive art," bringing about a second "death." Errington argues that the construction of the primitive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (and the kinds of objects chosen to exemplify it) must be understood as a product of discourses of progress—from the nineteenth-century European narrative of technological progress, to the twentieth-century narrative of modernism, to the late- twentieth-century narrative of the triumph of the free market. In Part One she charts a provocative argument ranging through the worlds of museums, art theorists, mail-order catalogs, boutiques, tourism, and world events, tracing a loosely historical account of the transformations of meanings of primitive art in this century. In Part Two she explores an eclectic collection of public sites in Mexico and Indonesia—a national museum of anthropology, a cultural theme park, an airport, and a ninth-century Buddhist monument (newly refurbished)—to show how the idea of the primitive can be used in the interests of promoting nationalism and economic development. Errington's dissection of discourses about progress and primitivism in the contemporary world is both a lively introduction to anthropological studies of art institutions and a dramatic new contribution to the growing field of cultural studies.