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Christianity in Asia : sacred art and visual splendour

Title
Christianity in Asia : sacred art and visual splendour / Pedro Moura Carvalho [and six others] ; edited by Alan Chong.
Publication
  • Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, [2016]
  • [Honolulu] : University of Hawai'i Press
  • ©2016

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  • Carvalho, Pedro de Moura
  • Chong, Alan, 1957-
  • Asian Civilisations Museum (Singapore), issuing body, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
Description
285 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
Christianity in Asia' explores the spread of the religion across Asia, and the art it inspired. This fully illustrated catalogue is aimed at a general audience, and accompanies the first exhibition exclusively dedicated to this topic. The book shows how local artists interpreted well-established Christian iconography, with new materials, and in often surprising ways. Essays explore earliest Christian art in Central Asia, India, and China; interest in Christian art at the Islamic courts; and works associated with missionary activities in China, South and Southeast Asia, and Japan. Exhibition: Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore (27.05.-11.09.2016).
Subject
  • Christian art and symbolism > Asia > Exhibitions
  • Christianity and art > Asia > Exhibitions
  • Art and religion > Asia > Exhibitions
  • Art and religion
  • Christian art and symbolism
  • Christianity and art
  • Asia
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Christianity in Asia : sacred art and visual splendour, presented at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, from 27 May to 11 September 2016"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references (pages 266-277) and index.
Language (note)
  • In English.
Contents
Christian art in Asia / Alan Chong -- What makes Asian art Christian? / Pedro Moura Carvalho -- Early Christianity in Central Asia and China / Ken Parry -- Monuments of Indian Christian art, problem of genres, dating, and context / István Perczel -- Christian art at the Islamic courts / Alan Chong -- Illustrations to mirror of holiness (mi'rat al-quds), a 1602 text by the Jesuit Jerome Xavier / Pedro Moura Carvalho -- Ivory Catechism, Christian sculpture from Goa and Sri Lanka / Maria da Conceição Borges de Sousa -- Christianity in China, Yuan to Qing dynaties, 13th to 20th centuries / Lauren Arnold -- Christianity in Japan, 1549-1639 / Clement Onn -- Christian ivories by Chinese artists, Macau, the Philippines, and elsewherem late 16th and 17th centuries / Alan Chong -- Protestantism in the Dutch Indies in the 17th century / Alan Chong -- Christianity in the Philippines / David Alan Henkel -- Christianity in Singapore in the 19th century / Loh Pei Ying.
ISBN
  • 9789810996857
  • 9810996853
LCCN
2016326204
OCLC
  • ocn949845630
  • 949845630
  • SCSB-5888487
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries