Yungang Grottoes Story Sculpture Arts
by Zhao Kunyu
Description
Buddhist story sculpture is one of the very old express contents and forms of Buddhist arts. The Yungang Grottoes story sculptures show the scenes of stories between gods and folks, men and women, and animals and plants. Though more than one thousand and five hundred years have passed, these art images remain vibrant and appealing. In this book, the author carries out an overall discussion over the existing Buddhist story graphics in the Yungang Grottoes concerning their research history, form of expression, story classification, cultural characteristics. This book is a summative and forward-looking production of the research on Yungang Buddhist story sculptures seen so far, and it is also a graphics archive of Yungang Buddhist stories.
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Author Biography
Zhao Kunyu is Director of the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute and one of the subeditors of the 20-volume Complete Works of Yungang Grottoes.
Qingdao Publishing House
Qingdao Publishing House is a state-owned publisher of China founded in 1987. It has published nearly 20,000 titles covering the complete publication spectrum.
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- Publisher Qingdao Publishing House
- ISBN/Identifier 9787555245452
- Publication Country or regionChina
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title释俗之间——云冈石窟故事图雕刻艺术
- Original Language Authors赵昆雨
- Copyright Year2022
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