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Tree & serpent : early Buddhist art in India / John Guy
LIBRA N8193.I4 G89 2023
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Fine Arts Library N8193.I4 G89 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guy, John, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist art--India--Exhibitions.
- Buddhist art.
- Buddhist art objects--India--Exhibitions.
- Buddhist art objects.
- India.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023
- Summary:
- Buddhist art originated more than 2,000 years ago, shaping religious practice and artistic motifs as it spread from India throughout South, North, and Southeast Asia. Tree and Serpent explores the ways early sculptural works by Buddhist artists, architects, and practitioners were transformed as the religion moved across the continent. World-renowned scholars from India, Europe, and the United States demonstrate how figurative sculpture and the narrative tradition in India were central to the function and meaning of early Buddhist art and architecture. The book's essays probe such topics as the pre-Buddhist cults of earth, water, and tree spirits; the Buddha's presence in relics; the influence of Roman bronzes and coins found in India; and the financial life of monks. The catalogue includes a wide range of early Buddhist artworks'from expertly carved stone reliefs to impeccably decorated pieces of jewelry'and features the first publication of sculptures unearthed over the past decade at major monastic sites in South India. With new photography of more than 125 objects from international collections dating from roughly 200 BCE to 450 CE, this ambitious catalogue provides essential new insights into our understanding of ancient Indian art and the origins of Buddhism. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (17.07. - 03.12.2023).
- Contents:
- Sponsor's statements
- Directors' foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the reader
- Lenders to the exhibition
- Contributors
- Maps
- Indian subcontinent
- India's global setting
- Major Buddhist sites active in the Deccan, 200 BCE - 400 CE
- Beginnnings of Buddhist imagery
- Early Buddhist landcape of southern India / John Guy
- Catalogue / John Guy
- Relics, stupas, and texts
- Stupas and the cult of relics / John Guy
- Celebrating the Buddha in early southern India / John Guy
- Monastic Buddhism, commerce, and patronage
- The business side of a Buddhist monastery / Gregory Schopen
- Buddhist patronage and monastic institutions in Andhra : epigraphic evidence / Vincent Tournier
- Maritime netowkrs of coastal Andhradeśa / Himanshu Prabha Ray
- Global setting
- Rome and its connections with India / Norman Underwood
- Evoking the Buddha in peninsular India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia / Sunil Gupta
- The Buddha revealed
- The development of Buddhist image worship in early Andhradeśa / Akira Shimada
- Buddhist narratives at Kanaganahalli / Monika Zin
- The Buddhist stone of Andhradeśa / Federico Carò
- Early India : chronology and key events
- Gazetteer of Buddhist sites, principally in the Deccan / John Guy and Vaishnavi Patil
- Glossary
- Notes to essays and catalogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photograph credits
- Notes:
- "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 bce-400 ce, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from July 21 through November 13, 2023" -- Colophon
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-) and index
- ISBN:
- 1588396932
- 9781588396938
- OCLC:
- 1347259359
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