Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture In Secular And Religious Life
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932476172 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"The Tibetan style of furnishing is elaborate and luxurious…when it is carried out with taste it has a bold, barbaric fascination that can hardly be excelled." So the Italian scholar Fosco Maraini characterized the Tibetan interior during his travels on the plateau in the late 1930s. Within twenty years the world he so vividly described would be swept away in the tide of the Chinese invasion and the later Cultural Revolution. Wooden Wonders presents eleven articles from this team ranging from Luca Corona and Camilla Hulse Corona’s comprehensive survey of Tibetan furniture types and methods of construction and decoration to more specialist discussions such as Dale Gluckman’s article on textile patterns in the furniture’s painted decoration and Geshe Lobzang Tsetan’s and Kathleen Kernell's elucidation of the ritual uses to which some of the furniture was put.
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