Tree & Serpent
Early Buddhist Art in India
$77.92
- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2023
Summary
With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the origins and meaning of Buddhist artistic traditions
Buddhist art originated more than 2,000 years ago, shaping religious practice and artistic motifs as it spread from India throughout South, North, and Southeast Asia. Tree and Serpent explores the ways early sculptural works by Buddhist artists, architects, and practitioners were tra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781588396938 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1588396932 |
| Author: | John Guy |
| Publisher: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Imprint: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 2.25kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 311mm |
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Critics Review
“A spectacular achievement … [that] opens a window onto a sophisticated courtly and monastic world previously known to only a handful of art historians… . Tree & Serpent—beautifully curated and spectacularly well lit—is accompanied by an exceptional scholarly catalog. Both the show and the book are extraordinary achievements… . They will astonish even those who think they are familiar with the art of Buddhism.”—William Dalrymple, New York Review of Books
John Guy
John Guy is Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia in the Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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