Title Buddhist treasures from Nara / Michael R. Cunningham ; with essays by John M. Rosenfield and Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan

Published Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art ; New York : Distributed by Hudson Hills Press, [1998] ©1998

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Description ix, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm Contents Preface / Robert P. Bergman -- Greetings / Uchida Hiroyasu -- Foreword and Acknowledgments / Michael R. Cunningham -- The Legacy of Buddhist Art at Nara / Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan -- Catalogue / Michael R. Cunningham -- Japanese Buddhist Art: Alive in the Modern Age / John M. Rosenfield Summary Among collections of Buddhist art, the museum at Nara towers over others as dramatically as its great pagodas dominate the surrounding countryside. This catalogue commemorates a historic exchange of exhibitions between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nara National Museum that brings the treasures of this collection for the first time to the West. Each of these transcendent objects is discussed in detail by curator Michael Cunningham, and essays by John Rosenfield and Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan brilliantly illuminate their historical and cultural context. Together the authors describe the journey of these works of art through time, from their creation as objects of veneration and spiritual practice, through their decline in the regard of the nationalist culture of the nineteenth century, to their recovery of spiritual authority in the twentieth Analysis Art, Buddhist Japan Nara-shi Exhibitions Art, Japanese Japan Nara-shi Exhibitions Art, Japanese To 1600 Exhibitions Ausstellung Buddhistische Kunst ; SWD-ID: 41272341 Nara ; SWD-ID: 41177745 Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan Exhibitions Notes Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Aug. 9-Sept. 27, 1998 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253) Subject Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan -- Exhibitions. Buddhist art -- Japan -- Nara-shi -- Exhibitions. Art, Japanese -- To 1600 -- Exhibitions. Art, Japanese -- Japan -- Nara-shi -- Exhibitions. Buddhist art -- Japan -- Nara-shi -- Exhibitions. Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. Author Rosenfield, John M. Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall, 1948- Cleveland Museum of Art. Ausstellung "Buddhist treasures from Nara" (1998.08.09-09.27 : Cleveland) LC no. 98027230 ISBN 0940717484 (cloth : alk. paper) 0940717492 (paperback: alk. paper)

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