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Wisdom embodied : Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan ; with contributions by Lawrence Becker, Arianna Gambirasi, Takao Itoh, Mechtild Mertz, Won Yee Ng, Adriana Rizzo, and Mark T, Wypyski
No full textBuddhism and Buddhist Sculpture in China A Brief Overview / Denise Patry Leidy -- Creating Sacred Images of the Buddha A Technical Perspective / Donna Strahan -- Collection Highlights / Donna Strahan -- APPENDICES -- A. Additional Works in the Collection -- B. The Issue of the Trubner Stele / Denise Patry Leidy -- C. Technical Study of Two Northern Wei Altarpieces Dedicated to the Buddha Maitreya / Lawrence Becker -- D. Compositional Analysis of Metal Sculpture in the Collection / Mart T. Wypyski -- E. Polychrome Decoration on Chinese Sculpture / Arianna Gambirasi -- F. Analysis of Wood Species in the Collection / Takao Itoh ; Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art -- ; Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan -- ; With contributions by Lawrence Becker, Arianna Gambirasi, Takao Itoh, Mechtild Mertz, Won Yee Ng, Adriana Rizzo, and Mark T. Wypyski -- ; "The Metropolitan Museum's collection of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture is the largest in the Western world. In this lavish, comprehensive volume, archaeological discoveries and scientific testing and analysis serve as the basis for a reassessment of 120 works ranging in date from the fourth to the twentieth century, many of them previously unpublished and all of them newly and beautifully photographed. An introductory essay provides an indispensable overview of Buddhist practices and iconography--acquainting us with the panoply of past, present, and future Buddhas, bodhisattvas, monks and arhats, guardians and adepts, pilgrims and immortals--and explores the fascinating dialogue between Indian and Chinese culture that underlies the transmission of Buddhism into China. In addition to detailed individual discussions of fifty masterpieces--a heterogeneous group including portable shrines carved in wood, elegant bronze icons, monumental stone representations, colorful glazed-ceramic figures, and more--the catalogue presents a ground-breaking survey of the methods used in crafting the sculptures. A second introductory essay and several technical appendices address the question of how early Chinese bronzes, as opposed to those from Gandhara and other westerly regions, were cast the construction methods used for wood sculptures in China, notably different from those used in Japan the complex layers of color and gilding on works in all media and their possible significance and the role of consecratory deposits in wood and metal sculptures. A final appendix publishes the results of an intensive analysis of the wood material in the collection, classifying every sculpture by the genus of its wood and including a section of photomicrographs of each wood sample--an invaluable resource for researchers continuing to study works of this genre. As illuminating for new enthusiasts of Chinese Buddhist art as for scholars and connoisseurs"--BOOK JACKET ; Denise Patry Leidy is curator in the Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Donna Strahan is conservator in the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Includes bibliographical references and inde
American woman : [installation photographs, checklists, wall text] fashioning a national identity
No full textExhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5, 2010–August 15, 201
Journal of art crime : volume 3, number 1, Spring 2010
No full textIssue 03 of Journal of art crime. Access restricted to The Metropolitan Museum of Art computer network
Miro, the Dutch interiors [electronic resource] : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 5, 2010-Jan. 17, 201
Playing with pictures [electronic resource] : [press kit] the art of Victorian photocollage
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 2-May 9, 201
Jan Gossart's Renaissance
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 6, 2010-Jan. 17, 201