Through analysis of sculptural representations of the Medicine Buddha (J: Yakushi Nyorai), this book offers a fresh perspective on the seminal role played by Saich? and the Tendai school in disseminating this devotional cult throughout Japan during the Heian period.
The well-known formats of Roman sculpture are the ones best preserved, but inevitably limited to those designed to be permanent and immobile. A significant component of the Roman visual world missing from this record are those images which depict or stand in for the Roman gods d…
Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective. The book focuses on the thirty-five year history of the Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played …
Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective. The book focuses on the thirty-five year history of the Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played …
Modern scholars have traditionally described the emergence of the classical style in Greek sculpture as a steady march of progress, but this account assumes the impossible: that the early Greeks were working tirelessly toward a style of which they had no prior knowledge.
Indian sculpture
