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The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Museum of Art

By Catherine B. Asher , Frederick M. Asher , Anne Bromberg , Nancy Tingley , Robert Warren Clark

Book information

Publisher
Dallas Museum of Art
Year
2013
ISBN
0300149883, 9780300149883
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (51723963 bytes)
Series
Dallas Museum of Art Publications
Pages
264\265
Time added
2015-07-07 22:43:08
Collections Catalogs Exhibitions Arts Photography

Description

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India’s Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former Ottoman empire to Java, and architectural pieces suggest the grandeur of buildings in the Indian tradition.This volume details the cultural and artistic significance of more than 140 featured works, which range from Tibetan thangkas and Indian miniature paintings to stone sculptures and bronzes. Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region.

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