Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Edited by Katherine R. Tsiang
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Edited by Katherine R. Tsiang
This volume was part of the exhibition Echoes of the Past—co-organized by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery—held in 2010-2011. Using such twenty-first-century technologies as 3-D scanning, Katherine Tsiang and an international team of technicians and scholars have identified many of the dispersed sculptures from Xiangtangshan in an effort to shed new light on the original beauty and meaning of the cave temples. This exhibition catalog features entries with full-color illustrations of the works in the exhibition as well as six new essays discussing the artistic, historical, and religious significance of the caves and their sculptures and recent research dedicated to their digital reconstruction.
With contributions by Richard A. Born, Jinhua Chen, Albert E. Dien, Lec Maj, Nancy Steinhardt, Katherine Tsiang, Daisy Yiyou Wang, J. Keith Wilson, and Wu Hung.
Available for purchase from UChicago Press