The lives of Chinese objects :Buddhism, imperialism and display
- 作者: Tythacott, Louise.
- 出版: New York : Berghahn Books c2011.
- 稽核項: vii, 275 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Museums and collections v.3
- 標題: Cultural property Repatriation -- China. , Ethnological museums and collections England -- Liverpool. , Museum exhibits England -- Liverpool. , Putuo Shan Island (China) Antiquities. , Putuo Shan Island (China) , Repatriation , Bronze sculpture China -- Putuo Shan Island -- History. , Bronze sculpture , History. , Antiquities. , Ethnological museums and collections , Cultural property , Museum exhibits , Ceremonial objects China -- Putuo Shan Island -- History. , Buddhist sculpture China -- Putuo Shan Island -- History. , Buddhist sculpture , Ceremonial objects
- ISBN: 0857452398 , 9780857452399
- 附註: 100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題 : 藝術學 : 博物館蒐藏與文化展示. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 系統號: 005055128
- 資料類型: 圖書
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- 引用網址: 複製連結
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China's most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
來源: Google Book
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