Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan

, xi, 339 pages, colour frontispiece, illustrations throughout in both black &amp; white and colour

Arts & Photography

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Stoddard, Heather

Bartholomew, Terese Tse

Denver Art Museum

Berger, Patricia Ann

Bosson, James E.

national-geographic-society-u-s

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Imperial Manchu support and patronage of Buddhism, particularly in Mongolia and Tibet, has often been dismissed as cynical political manipulation. Empire of Emptiness questions this generalization by taking a fresh look at the huge outpouring of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and decorative arts Qing court artists produced for distribution throughout the empire. It examines some of the Buddhist underpinnings of the Qing view of rulership and shows just how central images were in the carefully reasoned rhetoric the court directed toward its Buddhist allies in inner Asia. The multilingual, culturally fluid Qing emperors put an extraordinary range of visual styles into practice--Chinese, Tibetan, Nepalese, and even the European Baroque brought to the court by Jesuit artists. Their pictorial, sculptural, and architectural projects escape easy analysis and raise questions about the difference between verbal and pictorial description, the ways in which overt and covert meaning could be embedded in images through juxtaposition and collage, and the collection and criticism of paintings and calligraphy that were intended as supports for practice and not initially as works of art. "All scholars of the Qianlong era, of early modern Mongol studies, of Tibetan Buddhism, and of pre-modern China studies will find the book indispensable." --- Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College "More than any other art historical study to appear recently, this book expands our view of the visual culture of late imperial China by highlighting its ethnic complexity." --- Marsha Haufler, University of Kansas

Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China

Univ of Hawaii Pr

Catalog for exhibition organized by the Asian Art Museum to introduce the spectacular tomb arts excavated in and around Xi'an in Shaaxi province to a broad public. Bibliography. Beautifully illustrated. Maps and plans. Introductory essay by Patricia Berger.

Tomb Treasures from China: The Buried Art of Ancient Xi'an

Casler, Jennifer Randolph

Kimbell Art Museum

Contents Include: Who are the Mongols and Why?; Mongolia from Genghis Khan to Independence; After Xanadu: The Mongol Renaissance of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century; The Art of Mongolia; Scripts and Literacy on the Mongol World; Nomadic Life; Renaissance and Reincarnation; Buddhist Festivals in Mongolia; Manuscripts; The Tibetan Pantheon: Its Mongolian Form, Zanabazar 1635 to 1723; etc.

Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis [Genghis] Khan

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