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Constructed between 1945 and 1947 by Jacques Marchais (the professional name of Jacqueline Klauber), the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art in Staten Island houses more than 1200 pieces of Tibetan Buddhist art from China and Mongolia, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Two essays about the history of the museum and the history of Tibetan Buddhism open the catalogue, which contains 169 objects from the museum's collections.
This catalogue opens with two essays about the history of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art and the history of Tibetan Buddhism. It contains 169 objects from the museum's collections. It should be of interest to students of Tibetan studies and art historians.
A millennium of paintings, textiles, metal sculptures, ritual objects; aesthetic, religious contexts.
Ranging from the 11th to the 20th century, and covering all forms of art from ceremonial silver objects to prayer wheels and sculpture, this book provides an overview of the Newark Museum's holdings of Tibetan art.
A millennium of paintings, textiles, metal sculptures, ritual objects; aesthetic, religious contexts.
Logan, who founded the nonprofit Kham Aid Foundation to support conservation of the murals of Tibet's Pewar Monastery, provides a firsthand look at Tibetan culture and the fate of their Buddhist monasteries under Chinese Communist rule. Maps, color and bandw illustrations, and appended material (with some references) help detail her travels from 1994-98 among these people, their languages, treasures, and conservation techniques. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
By studying these texts within and examining the styles of the manuscript illuminations, Amy Heller was able to shed light on the lost history of this remote Tibetan enclave, the spread of Buddhism in the Himalayas and its artistic legacy. The manuscripts, sculptures and mural paintings discovered in Dolpo are the concrete expression of the complex economic, political, artistic and religious interactions between the people of Dolpo and their neighbors in India, Nepal and Tibet. --