Early Buddhist narrative art
Subtitle: illustrations of the life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea, and Japan
By: Patricia E. Karetzky
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Gautama Buddha -- Art; Art, Buddhist -- Asia, Central; Narrative art -- Asia, Central; Art, Buddhist -- East Asia; Narrative art -- East Asia
Genres: Art
Description: Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index