Alexandra Green
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9789888390885
- eISBN:
- 9789882204850
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390885.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This volume draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to delineate the structures and details of late Burmese wall paintings and elucidate the religious, ...
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This volume draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to delineate the structures and details of late Burmese wall paintings and elucidate the religious, political, and social concepts driving the creation of this art form. The combination of architecture, paintings, sculpture, and literary traditions created a complete space in which devotees could interact with the Buddha through his biography. Through the standardization of a repertoire of specific forms, codes, and themes, the murals were themselves activating agents, spurring devotees to merit-making, worship, and other ritual practices, partially by establishing normative religious behavior and partly through visual incentives. Much of this was accomplished through the manipulation of space, and the volume contributes to the analysis of visual narratives by examining how the relationships between word and image, layouts, story and scene selection, and narrative themes both demonstrate and confirm social structures and changes, economic activities, and religious practices of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century Burma. The visual material of the wall painting sites worked together with the sculpture and the architecture to create unified spaces in which devotees could interact with the Buddha. This analysis takes the narrative field beyond the concept that pictures are to be “read” and shows the multifarious and holistic ways in which they can be viewed. To enter temples of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries was to enter a coherent space created by a visually articulated Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotee belonged by performing ritual activities within it.Less
This volume draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to delineate the structures and details of late Burmese wall paintings and elucidate the religious, political, and social concepts driving the creation of this art form. The combination of architecture, paintings, sculpture, and literary traditions created a complete space in which devotees could interact with the Buddha through his biography. Through the standardization of a repertoire of specific forms, codes, and themes, the murals were themselves activating agents, spurring devotees to merit-making, worship, and other ritual practices, partially by establishing normative religious behavior and partly through visual incentives. Much of this was accomplished through the manipulation of space, and the volume contributes to the analysis of visual narratives by examining how the relationships between word and image, layouts, story and scene selection, and narrative themes both demonstrate and confirm social structures and changes, economic activities, and religious practices of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century Burma. The visual material of the wall painting sites worked together with the sculpture and the architecture to create unified spaces in which devotees could interact with the Buddha. This analysis takes the narrative field beyond the concept that pictures are to be “read” and shows the multifarious and holistic ways in which they can be viewed. To enter temples of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries was to enter a coherent space created by a visually articulated Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotee belonged by performing ritual activities within it.
Delinda Collier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694440
- eISBN:
- 9781452953632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694440.003.0003
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
Chapter Three shifts into the immediate post-colonial period and artists’ active use of Painted Walls of Lunda and other anthropological texts in art and the cultural policies of the newly ...
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Chapter Three shifts into the immediate post-colonial period and artists’ active use of Painted Walls of Lunda and other anthropological texts in art and the cultural policies of the newly independent Angolan government. These artists sampled from the global Marxist discourse of “O Homem Novo” (The New Man) during the Cold War.Less
Chapter Three shifts into the immediate post-colonial period and artists’ active use of Painted Walls of Lunda and other anthropological texts in art and the cultural policies of the newly independent Angolan government. These artists sampled from the global Marxist discourse of “O Homem Novo” (The New Man) during the Cold War.
Delinda Collier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694440
- eISBN:
- 9781452953632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694440.003.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
Chapter One examines José Redinha’s Painted Walls of Lunda and other of the Cultural Publications of the Dundo Museum in a territory called the “Lundas” in northeastern Angola. It sets the stage of ...
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Chapter One examines José Redinha’s Painted Walls of Lunda and other of the Cultural Publications of the Dundo Museum in a territory called the “Lundas” in northeastern Angola. It sets the stage of its publication in the 1950s by a mammoth diamond company, Diamang.Less
Chapter One examines José Redinha’s Painted Walls of Lunda and other of the Cultural Publications of the Dundo Museum in a territory called the “Lundas” in northeastern Angola. It sets the stage of its publication in the 1950s by a mammoth diamond company, Diamang.
Delinda Collier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694440
- eISBN:
- 9781452953632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694440.003.0005
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
The conclusion connects Painted Walls of Lunda and its themes of anthropology with the digital age, information and technology, and new media art.
The conclusion connects Painted Walls of Lunda and its themes of anthropology with the digital age, information and technology, and new media art.
Delinda Collier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694440
- eISBN:
- 9781452953632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694440.003.0004
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
Chapter Four analyzes the second major re-mediation of Painted Walls of Lunda within the contemporary digital media apparatus. It first recounts the “post-utopia” sentiment in some contemporary art ...
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Chapter Four analyzes the second major re-mediation of Painted Walls of Lunda within the contemporary digital media apparatus. It first recounts the “post-utopia” sentiment in some contemporary art after the end of the civil war and the advent of the Trienal de Luanda in 2006. It then places the digital version of the book, essentially a “heritage project,” into a media ecology of the internet.Less
Chapter Four analyzes the second major re-mediation of Painted Walls of Lunda within the contemporary digital media apparatus. It first recounts the “post-utopia” sentiment in some contemporary art after the end of the civil war and the advent of the Trienal de Luanda in 2006. It then places the digital version of the book, essentially a “heritage project,” into a media ecology of the internet.
Delinda Collier
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694440
- eISBN:
- 9781452953632
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694440.003.0006
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
The introduction gives the background of Painted Walls of Lunda, its themes, the major players involved, such as Diamang, and its cultural context.
The introduction gives the background of Painted Walls of Lunda, its themes, the major players involved, such as Diamang, and its cultural context.
