Buddhist visual cultures, rhetoric, and narrative in late Burmese wall paintings /

Buddhist visual cultures, rhetoric, and narrative in late Burmese wall paintings /

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Author / Creator:	Green, Alexandra, author.
Imprint:	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018] ©2018.
Description:	ix, 237 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mural painting and decoration, Burmese. Buddhist art -- Burma. Narrative painting -- Burma. Buddhist art. Mural painting and decoration, Burmese. Narrative painting. Burma.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11685597

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ISBN:	9789888390885 9888390880
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-227) and index.
Summary:	Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings display Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha's teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his community, with the aim of transforming the devotees' current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged. Green's visits to more than 160 sites with identifiable subject matter form the basis of this richly illustrated volume, which draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze the wall paintings and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form.

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Call Number:	ND2832.6.A1 G74 2018
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