Title: Mural art : studies on paintings in Asia / edited by Cristophe Munier-Gaillard.
Authors: Munier-Gaillard, Cristophe, 1961-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration Asia.; Mural painting and decoration Conservation and restoration Asia.; Mural painting and decoration; Mural painting and decoration Conservation and restoration; Asia
Abstract: 'Mural Art - Studies on mural paintings in Asia' is a series of 10 articles by the best scholars on murals in Afghanistan, Xinjiang (China), Tibet, Burma, Thailand and Mongolia - from the 5th to the 18th century. With issues such as preservation, digital reconstruction of lost murals, redating through the study of regional influences, iconography, style, translation and edition of captioned murals, this book provides new information with challenging perspectives based on the latest findings. It also reveals murals never published (Burma, Thailand, Mongolia), recently rediscovered and endangered (Tibet) or destroyed and vandalized (Afghanistan, Xinjiang).
Contents: Parinirvāṇā scenes in Bāmiyān murals : transformation of Gandhāran art in Central Asia / Akira Miyaji -- The origins of the earliest Buddhist murals in Bāmiyān / Shumpei Iwai -- Digital reconstruction of the mural panels from Temple no. 15 at Bezeklik, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China / Yoshihiro Okada and Takashi Irisawa -- Mural conservation in Tibet 1995-2007 : Grathang, Shalu and Lukhang conservation projects / Amy Heller -- Late 13th century wall paintings of Pang gra phug, a cave in west Tibet : iconography, style and similarities to the Luri stūpa in Mustang / Helmut F. and Heidi A. Neumann -- Inscriptions, captions and murals of the Buddha-vita in Pang gra phug (mNgaʹris, western Tibet) / Kurt Tropper -- The story of the Buddha's eyetooth relics and its pagan reception / Lilian Handlin -- Typology of 17th- and 18th-century gold murals in Myanmar / Cristophe Munier-Gaillard -- At the nexus of power : Chinese traces in the heart of Wat Ratchaburana in Ayutthaya / Pattaratorn Chirapravati -- Pe har and oracle deities in Mongolia : paintings of the five kings in Yeke juu monastery of Hohhot / Isabelle Charleux.