PORTRAITS OF CHOGEN "THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUDDHIST ART IN EARLY MEDIEVAL JAPAN"

por ROSENFIELD, JOHN M.

BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS



PORTRAITS OF CHOGEN "THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUDDHIST ART IN EARLY MEDIEVAL JAPAN"

ISBN: 978-90-04-16864-0
Fecha de la edición: 2011
Edición Nº: 1
Colección: JAPANESE VISUAL CULTURE, Número 1
Encuadernación: CARTONE
Nº Pág.: 240

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This volume, the first in Brill's Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunj?b? Ch?gen (1121-1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict in 1180. Ch?gen is best known for his role in the recasting of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu) and the reconstructing of the South Great Gate (Nandaimon) of T?daiji in Nara and its huge, dramatic wooden guardian figures. This study concentrates on these and other replacement statues and buildings associated with Ch?gen and situates the visual arts of Japan into the spiritual and socio-political context of their times. Through meticulous study of dedicatory material, Rosenfield is able to place the splendid Buddhist statues made for Ch?gen in vivid new light. The volume also explores how Japan's rulers employed the visual arts as instruments of government policy - a tactic that recurs throughout the nation's history. This publication includes an annotated translation of Ch?gen's memoir, completed near the end of his life, in which he recounts his many achievements. In chapters on East Asian portraiture, Rosenfield claims that surviving statues of Ch?gen, carved with mordant realism, rank among the world's most eloquent portraits, and herald the great changes that were to permeate Japanese religious and secular arts in the centuries to come. While Ch?gen has been the subject of major art exhibitions and extensive research in Japan; this is the first book-length study to appear in the West.


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