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Ajanta
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Ajanta

  • Categories: Art

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Ajaṇṭā
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Ajaṇṭā

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977-01-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Princeton Alumni Weekly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 992

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions, anthropology, literature and art history present a broad range of explorations into sacred biography as an interpretive genre. Easch essay makes unique contributions and the collection as a whole engages methodological and interpretive approaches that are central to scholars of Buddhism and those specializing in the study of south and Southeast Asia.

Asia and Oceania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 980

Asia and Oceania

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous sites in the world. Entries include: location, description, and site office details; and a 3,000 to 4,000 word essay that provides a full history of the site and the condition of the site today. An annotated Further Reading list of books and articles about the site completes each entry.

The Connecticut Register and Manual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 950

The Connecticut Register and Manual

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Rare Art Traditions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 750

The Rare Art Traditions

  • Categories: Art

A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.

The Art of Ancient India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 849

The Art of Ancient India

  • Categories: Art

To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author's aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: –Not since Coomaraswamyês History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness.” Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art _ from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan...

Art in Peninsular Thailand Prior to the Fourteenth Century A.D.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Art in Peninsular Thailand Prior to the Fourteenth Century A.D.

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Śāmalājī Sculptures and 6th Century Art in Western India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

The Śāmalājī Sculptures and 6th Century Art in Western India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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