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Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983. Hardcover. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Red cloth boards with silver lettering on cover and spine, green dust jacket with color illustration and white lettering, 280 pp., bw and color illustrations. "In this catalogue raisonne of a collection that is clearly the finest in the United States and arguably the finest outside Tibet, Pratapaditya Pal begins with a book-length introduction placing the art in religious context. As remarkable for its clarity and style as for the breadth of its learning, this introduction shows how Indian, Nepalise, Mongol, Chinese, and pre-Buddhist indigenous influences fused in a culture of extraordinary vigor and originality. The catalogue itself is divded into three parts - painting, sculpture, and ritual objects - each with a generous art historical introduction of its own. Of the seven manuscript illuminations and book covers, forty-seven…
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- Author Pal, Pratapaditya.
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- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date May 1984
- ISBN 9780520051409
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Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983. Hardcover. VG/VG- (book has previous owner's name plate on front page, all pages cleart and intact - dust jacket shows some wear on top, bottom and on spine, sticker residue on back cover). Red cloth boards with silver lettering on cover and spine, green dust jacket with color illustration and white lettering, 280 pp., bw and color illustrations. "In this catalogue raisonne of a collection that is clearly the finest in the United States and arguably the finest outside Tibet, Pratapaditya Pal begins with a book-length introduction placing the art in religious context. As remarkable for its clarity and style as for the breadth of its learning, this introduction shows how Indian, Nepalise, Mongol, Chinese, and pre-Buddhist indigenous influences fused in a culture of extraordinary vigor and originality. The catalogue itself is divded into three parts - painting, sculpture, and ritual objects - each with a generous art historical introduction of…
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U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Limited/ First Edition. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Couple short tears to jacket..
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Los Angeles: LA County Museum of Art, 1983. Catalogue of a superb collections of Tibetan art, curated by one of America's most erudite and prolific scholars of South Asia art. Pal's introduction places the art in religious context - as remarkable for its clarity and style as for the breadth of its learning, this section outlines how Indian, Nepalese, Mongol, Chinese, and pre-Buddhist indigenous influences fused in a culture of extraordinary vigour and originality. Following the introduction, the catalogue provides detailed descriptions and generous illustration for a total of 119 objects, including manuscripts and manuscript covers, painting, sculpture and ritual objects, ranging in age from the 11th to the 20th century. 280 pp., 48 col. and 119 b&w plates. An important reference. Slight nick to dj, a few spots of discolouration to the page fore-edges, interior pages pristine.. First. Hardbound. Fine/Near fine. 31 x 24 cm..
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Art of Tibet: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection
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Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983 First editon. Co-published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the University of California. Quarto. 280pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white and color photographs. Cloth. A very fine copy with very slightly worn pictorial dust jacket. One of 1,000 copies in hardback (6,000 softcover copies were printed). This is the Catalogue Raisonne of the collection, probably the finest in the United States. Includes an appendix on inscriptions by H.E. Richardson. Also includes glossaries of selected Sanskrit and Tibetan terms, a Tibetan Pronunciation key, and extensive bibliography, and index..
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