[PDF.90nx] Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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 | #1653444 in Books |  2015-02-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.90 x.60 x7.90l,.0 | File type: PDF | 526 pages

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||14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| The first comprehensive scholarly work in English on Daoist visual culture|By Fu Xi|This book fills a great void in Western scholarship on Daoism. Daoist culture is in fact highly visual but most treatments emphasizes text with only limited inclusion of visual material, mostly diagrams The catalogue of the superb exhibit of Daoist art at the Chicago Art Institute,is of great| |Picturing the True Form undertakes a path-breaking and comprehensive treatment of a highly important topic in the study of Chinese religions: the nature and cultural import of Daoist art. With an unprecedented level of analysis and meticulous attention

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-Shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans pre...

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