Chinese Steles
Subtitle: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: October 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780824827830
Subjects: Buddhism; History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; Religious subjects depicted in art; BCE to c 500 CE; Northern and Southern dynastie; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Social Science; Religion - World Religions; Sociology; China; Northern and Southern dynasties, 386-589; Asia - China; Buddhism - General; Subjects & Themes - Religious; History; Stele (Archaeology)
Description: "Buddhist steles represent an important subset of early Chinese Buddhist art that flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386-581). More than two hundred Chinese Buddhist steles are known to have survived. Their brilliant imagery has long captivated scholars, yet until now the Buddhist stele as a unique art form has received little scholarly attention. Dorothy Wong rectifies that insufficiency by providing in this well-illustrated volume the first comprehensive investigation of this group of Buddhist monuments." "In her analysis of Buddhism's dialogue with native traditions, Wong demonstrates how the Chinese artistic idiom planted the seeds for major achievements in figural and landscape arts in the ensuing Sui and Tang periods."--BOOK JACKET.