Art of Merit Studies in Buddhist Art and its Conservation

by Park, David; Wangmo, Kuenga; Cather, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9781904982920
• ISBN10: 1904982921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-02-16
• Publisher: Archetype Books

Summary

The Buddhist Art Forum - a major international gathering that explored the interrelation between the nature, creation, function, and conservation of Buddhist art from its earliest manifestations to the present - was held at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2012, sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation and attended by artists, scholars, historians, conservators, officials and monks. The aims of the Ho Foundation to promote the understanding of Buddhism and of The Courtauld to air the complex challenges of preserving Buddhist art are well served in the papers presented at the conference and contained in this volume which cover the form, function, conservation and display of Buddhist Art.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS 1 Presenting the Buddha: images, conventions, and significance in early Indian Buddhism Juhyung Rhi 2 Buddha's stupa and image: in search of the ultimate icon Tadeusz Skorupski 3 Rhetoric of Reward, ideologies of inducement: why produce Buddhist 'art'? Peter Skilling 4 Art in the dark: the ritual context of Buddhist caves in western China Robert Sharf 5 Painted and architectural ornamentation of the temples of Pagan: more than mere iconography and decoration Claudine Bautze-Picron 6 The problem of authenticity: a historical geography of Buddhist art in eighteenth-century China Patricia Berger 7 The oracle and temple of Lamochok: aspects of history and iconography Matthew Kapstein 8 The wailing arhats: Buddhism, photography and resistance in modern China Francesca Tarocco 9 Conserving the Buddhist wall paintings of Bamiyan in Afghanistan: practical issues and dilemmas Yoko Taniguchi 10 Buddhist wall paintings in context: the foundation for future scholarship Susan Whitfield 11 Dunhuang Grotto Buddhist art and its preventative conservation Wang Xudong 12 Applying the China Principles: The Getty Conservation Institute’s work at Dunhuang and Chengde in China Lori Wong, Martha Demas and Neville Agnew 13 Conservation and research in Buddhist art from an art-historical perspective Christian Luczanits 14 Sumda Chun and other early Buddhist wall painting in Ladakh: practical and ethical conservation issues from to failing structures to obscuring surface layers Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran, Sreekumar Menon and Maninder Singh Gill 15 Relationship of conservation to the functions of monuments, with reference to Buddhism in Bhutan Dorjee Tshering 16 Buddhist wall paintings of Bhutan: material traditions and conservation realities Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby 17 A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa: a major addition to the corpus of early fifteenth-century bronzes John Clarke 18 A new image of the Mahasiddha Virupa: technical investigations and conservation Diana Heath 19 The Buddha and his brothers: expressions of power, place and community by the network of Mahamuni images of Arakan, Bangladesh and Burma Pyi Phyo Kyaw and Kate Crosby 20 Buddhist strategies of keeping its sacred images and shrines alive: the example of the Svayambhu caitya of Kathmandu Alexander von Rospatt 21 Materiality of devotion: Tibetan Buddhist shrines of the western Himalayas Melissa R. Kerin 22 The pilgrimage to Bangajang: a devotional circuit in the eastern Himalayas Richard Blurton 23 Sacred art: on the path to wisdom and compassion Matthieu Ricard 24 Re-inscribing Mount Myohyang: from the Pohyon Temple to the International Friendship Exhibition Marsha Haufler 25 Why collect Tibetan art? Alice Kandell 26 Buddhist art in an Ando building Francesca Consagra 27 Revisiting The Third Mind: Buddhist imaginary in American art Alexandra Munroe 28 ‘Sculpture of mindfulness’ Antony Gormley