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Corporate Author Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Title Wisdom embodied : Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan ; with contributions by Lawrence Becker [and others].

Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
text file
Series Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments / Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan -- Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- Buddhism and Buddhist sculpture in China : a brief overview / Denise Patry Leidy -- Creating sacred images of the Buddha : a technical perspective / Donna Strahan -- Collection highlights / Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan -- Additional works in the collection -- The issue of the Trubner Stele / Denise Patry Leidy -- Technical study of two Northern Wei altarpieces dedicated to the Buddha Maitreya / Lawrence Becker -- Compositional analysis of metal sculpture in the collection / Mark T. Wypyski -- Polychrome decoration on Chinese sculpture / Donna Strahan, Adriana Rizzo, Won Yee Ng, and Arianna Gambirasi -- Analysis of wood species in the collection / Mechtild Mertz and Takao Itoh.
Summary "The Metropolitan Museum's collection of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture is the largest in the Western world. In this lavish, comprehensive volume, archaeological discoveries and scientific testing and analysis serve as the basis for a reassessment of 120 works ranging in date from the fourth to the twentieth century, many of them previously unpublished and all of them newly and beautifully photographed. An introductory essay provides an indispensable overview of Buddhist practices and iconography--acquainting us with the panoply of past, present, and future Buddhas, bodhisattvas, monks and arhats, guardians and adepts, pilgrims and immortals--and explores the fascinating dialogue between Indian and Chinese culture that underlies the transmission of Buddhism into China."
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Subject Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Catalogs.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Subject Buddhist sculpture -- China -- Catalogs.
Buddhist sculpture.
China.
Taoist sculpture -- China -- Catalogs.
Taoist sculpture.
Sculpture, Chinese -- Catalogs.
Sculpture, Chinese.
Sculpture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.
Sculpture.
New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Added Author Becker, Lawrence.
Leidy, Denise Patry, contributor.
Strahan, Donna K., contributor.
Other Form: Print version: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Wisdom embodied. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010 9781588393999 (DLC) 2010037222 (OCoLC)601348027
ISBN 9781588393999 (hc ; the metropolitan museum of art)
1588393992 (hc ; the metropolitan museum of art)
9780300155211 (hc ; yale university press)
0300155212 (hc ; yale university press)
Standard No. b1733570x