Treasures of Tibetan Art

Barbara Lipton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

314 Seiten

1996
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-509714-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Constructed between 1945 and 1947 by Jacques Marchais (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.

Barbara Lipton, an art historian, is director and curator of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art and author of a number of books, including Survival: Life and Art of the Alaskan Eskimo and John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum. Nima Dorjee Ragnubs is a Tibetan scholar and native of Tibet.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.1996
Co-Autor	Nima Dorjee Ragnubs
Zusatzinfo	colour and black and white halftones throughout
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Reiseführer ► Asien ► China
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
ISBN-10	0-19-509714-9 / 0195097149
ISBN-13	978-0-19-509714-6 / 9780195097146
Zustand	Neuware