Christianity in Asia : sacred art and visual splendour / edited by Alan Chong ; Pedro Moura Carvalho [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carvalho, Pedro de Moura, author.

Contributor:

Chong, Alan, 1957- editor.

Asian Civilisations Museum (Singapore), issuing body, host institution.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian art and symbolism--Asia--Exhibitions.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christianity and art--Asia--Exhibitions.

Christianity and art.

Art and religion--Asia--Exhibitions.

Art and religion.

Asia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm

Distribution:

[Honolulu] : University of Hawai'i Press.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, [2016]

Summary:

Christianity in Asia' explores the spread of the religion across Asia, and the art it inspired. This fully illustrated catalogue is aimed at a general audience, and accompanies the first exhibition exclusively dedicated to this topic. The book shows how local artists interpreted well-established Christian iconography, with new materials, and in often surprising ways. Essays explore earliest Christian art in Central Asia, India, and China; interest in Christian art at the Islamic courts; and works associated with missionary activities in China, South and Southeast Asia, and Japan. Exhibition: Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore (27.05.-11.09.2016).

Contents:

Christian art in Asia / Alan Chong

What makes Asian art Christian? / Pedro Moura Carvalho

Early Christianity in Central Asia and China / Ken Parry

Monuments of Indian Christian art, problem of genres, dating, and context / István Perczel

Christian art at the Islamic courts / Alan Chong

Illustrations to mirror of holiness (mi'rat al-quds), a 1602 text by the Jesuit Jerome Xavier / Pedro Moura Carvalho

Ivory Catechism, Christian sculpture from Goa and Sri Lanka / Maria da Conceição Borges de Sousa

Christianity in China, Yuan to Qing dynaties, 13th to 20th centuries / Lauren Arnold

Christianity in Japan, 1549-1639 / Clement Onn

Christian ivories by Chinese artists, Macau, the Philippines, and elsewherem late 16th and 17th centuries / Alan Chong

Protestantism in the Dutch Indies in the 17th century / Alan Chong

Christianity in the Philippines / David Alan Henkel

Christianity in Singapore in the 19th century / Loh Pei Ying.

Notes:

"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Christianity in Asia : sacred art and visual splendour, presented at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, from 27 May to 11 September 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-277) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789810996857

9810996853

OCLC:

949845630