Download or read book Murals in Burma Paintings from Pagan of the late period 18th century written by Klaus Wenk and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buddhist Visual Cultures Rhetoric and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings written by Alexandra Green and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings displays Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha’s teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his community, with the aim of transforming the devotees’ current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged. Green’s visits to more than 160 sites with identifiable subject matter form the basis of this richly illustrated volume, which draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze the wall paintings and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form. “Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings is truly a tour de force that allows us to see Burmese temple paintings of the Life of the Buddha and similar themes as an open-ended genre that, like literary discourse, participates in wider social, intellectual, and religious contexts.” —Juliane Schober, Arizona State University “Alexandra Green introduces this relatively unknown material and subjects it to sophisticated analysis. This study is major step towards creating a template that could be used for analyzing other late traditions of Buddhist painting.” —Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin

Download or read book Burmese Buddhist Murals Epigraphic corpus of the Powin Taung caves written by Christophe Munier and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buddhist Murals of Pagan written by Claudine Bautze-Picron and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasures hide in the temples of Pagan--treasures in part never meant to be seen, enshrouded in the darkness of high vaults. They compose a unique ensemble in the Buddhist world of the eleventh to fourteenth century, giving us a glimpse of a lost splendor, and providing evidence of the major political, religious and artistic position that Pagan then held. Adorning the walls and ceilings of those monuments, they constitute a prayer to the Buddha: to the Buddha as a human being, to his last life, but also to his numerous lives when he was in search of the truth. This comprehensive study covers, for the first time, not only the murals found within temples near the historic city of Pagan, but also those within the monuments scattered elsewhere over the Pagan plain. Following an initial iconographic analysis, the author proceeds to reconstruct the overall vision of the murals within the broader context of the interior spaces of the temples, revealing these monuments as visualizations of the Buddhist cosmos and reflecting the cosmological nature of the Buddha. Author Bautze-Picron is an authority on early Indic Buddhist art and her erudite descriptions of these lost treasures are complemented by a magnificent photographic record of the surviving murals themselves. Essential reading for all with interest in the history and diversity of Buddhist art.

Download or read book The Art of Burma written by Donald Martin Stadtner and published by Performing Arts Mumbai. This book was released on 1999 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Illustrated book of Burmese court textiles Luntaya acheiq written by Phanwasā Kunlabut and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of Burma Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Burma Studies Group written by Burma Studies Group and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ancient Pagan written by Donald Martin Stadtner and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagan is the largest and most resplendent centre of Buddhist art in the ancient world. Construction in

Download or read book The Cave temples of Po Win Taung Central Burma written by Anne-May Chew and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buddhist Art of Myanmar written by Sylvia Fraser-Lu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning showcase of exceptional and rare works of Buddhist art, presented to the international community for the first time The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collections in the United States, including sculptures, paintings, textiles, and religious implements created for temples and monasteries, or for personal devotion. Many of these pieces have never before been seen outside of Myanmar. Accompanied by brilliant color photography, essays by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Donald M. Stadtner, and scholars from around the world synthesize the history of Myanmar from the ancient through colonial periods and discuss the critical links between religion, geography, governance, historiography, and artistic production. The authors examine the multiplicity of styles and techniques throughout the country, the ways Buddhist narratives have been conveyed through works of art, and the context in which the diverse objects were used. Certain to be the essential resource on the subject, Buddhist Art of Myanmar illuminates two millennia of rarely seen masterpieces.

Download or read book Fishbones and Glittering Emblems written by Östasiatiska museet and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Burmese Crafts written by Sylvia Fraser-Lu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craftsmen have always held an honoured place in Burmese society and have taken great pride in their creative abilities. In pre-colonial Burma, all sections of the population - from royalty to the monkhood to the common folk - used finely crafted objects in their everyday lives. Prehistoricand Historic evidence indicates that the inhabitants of Burma have been fashioning objects of beauty and utility for over 2,000 years.Buddhism over the centuries has been the prime inspiration for much of Burma's artistic endeavour. This, in combination with a thriving body of pre-Buddhist animistic beliefs, a rich oral and vernacular literature, and a love of detailed surface embellishment, have culminated in the production ofdistinctive works of art.In this work, the author introduces the reader to the scope and beauty of Burmese crafts by exploring the historical background, the foundations of Burma's artistic traditions, and the temple and pagoda arts of brick, stucco, sculpture, and painting, before embarking on a systematic survey of thedevelopment and evolution of Burma's major crafts, such as bronze and ironwork, wooden architecture, wood-carving, gold, silver, and jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, textiles and costume, books, paper, baskets, mats, and umbrellas.The author has lived and worked in Asia as a writer and educator for over twenty-five years and has written numerous articles and books about Asian arts and crafts.

Download or read book The Rock and Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka written by Senake Bandaranayake and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imperial Pagan written by Paul Strachan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims to revive interest in the least-examined monumental Buddhist site in Southeast Asia.

Download or read book The Dictionary of Art written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cultural Heritage of Burma written by Krishna Murari and published by New Delhi : Inter-India Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma over the centuries has been thoroughly exposed to the glorious richness of Indian cultural traditions in all their manifestatiosn, yet its culture has kept alive its distinctive entity, its indegenous character. Cultural Heritage of Burma is among the very few books to project a complete, integrated picture of the Burmese culture. The author interprets afresh a colossal descriptive data, including the relevant inscriptional material to reconstruct the history of Burma, from Ist century A.D. to 1500 A.D., highlifhting how different Burmese monarch of yore, coming under the irresistible spell fo Buddhism, created a network of monasteries, pagodas and temples to perpetuate the religion of the Buddha in this golden land.