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Lädt ... The missing buddhas : the mystery of the Chinese Buddhist statues that stunned the western art world (2021. Auflage)von Tony Miller
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In the early 1900s, as chaos reigned in China, life-size glazed terracotta Buddhist monks started appearing on the antiques market and caused a sensation in the West, being both exquisite and completely unlike anything else ever seen in Chinese art. Museums and collectors around the world competed for them, but who made them and when? And where had they been hidden before they suddenly emerged into the light? The Missing Buddhas tells the story of the statues and unravels the question of their origins. For the past century, scholars, curators and connoisseurs have been mesmerized by a myth created by a German dealer that the monks were hidden in inaccessible caves southwest of Beijing to save them from barbarian invaders. But Tony Miller takes a scalpel to this tall tale and both debunks it and discovers the true history of the statues. In doing so, he opens a window on a fascinating period in Chinese history and introduces an extraordinary cast of characters as he leads the reader clue by clue to the real origins of these beautiful enigmas. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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"Maybe it was a trick of the light," he says, "but I turned round and there he was staring at me. It took a while to register that he wasn't actually staring at me but through me, and the hairs on the forearm went straight up."
What had crept up on the Hong Kong career civil servant was a life-size and stunningly lifelike ceramic luohan or Buddhist saint, in the green, yellow and cream glazes known as sancai, typical of AD618-907 Tang dynasty tomb figurines, but here on a much larger scale.
This was a figure that, save for the addition of the elongated ears typical of Buddhist iconography, was far from the standardised serenity of most other luohan statues, and apparently a portrait from life. When Miller later stumbled across two similarly charismatic figures from the same set in New York's Metropolitan Museum, he began to wonder just how many there were around the world, and where they had come from.