Author | Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoNational Geographic Society (U.S.)Berger, Patricia AnnBartholomew, Terese TseBosson, James EvertDenver Art Museum |
Place | London, New York |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library [Luce] |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book (Exhibition catalog) |
Series | |
Shelf | Seminar Room 102-103 |
Call Number | N7349.7.B47 1995 |
Description | xi, 339 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm |
Note | Mongolia : the legacy of Chinggis Khan / Patricia Berger, Terese Tse Bartholomew ; with essays by James Bosson [and others] ; catalogue photographs by Kazuhiro Tsuruta. Published on the occasion of the travelling exhibition of the same name held at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, July 19-Oct. 15, 1995; the Denver Art Museum, Nov. 11, 1995-Feb. 26, 1996; and the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., April 3-July 7, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index. Introduction / Patricia Berger -- Who are the Mongols, and why? / James Bosson -- Mongolia: from Chinggis Khan to independence / Morris Rossabi -- After Xanadu: the Mongol renaissance of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Patricia Berger -- Introduction to the art of Mongolia / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Scripts and literacy in the Mongol world / James Bosson -- Nomadic life / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Renaissance and reincarnation / Patricia Berger -- Buddhist festivals in Mongolia / Patricia Berger -- Manuscripts / Terese Tse Bartholomew and Lewis R. Lancaster. -- Tibetan Pantheon: its Mongolian form / Heather Stoddard -- Zanabazar (1635-1723) / Patricia Berger. The accompanying essays explore the rich historical background and examine the ways in which the various forms of art were used--both in a spiritual context and in communicating to the nomadic people a message of harmony and unity, the promise of utopian future. |
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ISBN | 0500237050 ; 9780500237052 |
LCCN | 95060283 |