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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Open Access EbpS |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 4, 2022). |
| Contents |
Preface - Wannaporn Rienjang and Peter Stewart ; Part 1 Archaeology and Collecting History ; Reconstructing Jamlgarh and Appendix B: the archaeological record 1848-1923 - Elizabeth Errington ; Gandhran stucco sculptures from Sultan Khel (former Khyber Agency) in the collection of Peshawar Museum: a study in three parts - Zarawar Khan, Fawad Khan, and Ghayyur Shahab ; A unique collection of confiscated material of Gandhra (Pakistan) - Muhammad Ashraf Khan and Tahir Saeed ; Part 2 Receptions ; Gandhran imagery as remembered by Buddhist communities across Asia - Kurt A. Behrendt ; Archaeology of Buddhism in post-partition Punjab: the disputed legacy of Gandhra - Himanshu Prabha Ray ; From colonial Greece to postcolonial Rome? Re-orienting ancient Pakistan in museum guides in the 1950s and 1960s - Andrew Amstutz ; Stories of Gandhra: antiquity, art and idol - Shaila Bhatti ; The art of deception: perspectives on the problem of fakery in Gandhran numismatics - Shailendra Bhandare ; Gandhra in the news: rediscovering Gandhra in The Times and other media - Helen Wang. |
| Summary |
"The ancient Buddhist art of Gandhra was rediscovered from the 1830s and 1840s onwards in what would become the North-West Frontier of British India. By the end of the century an abundance of sculptures had been accumulated by European soldiers and officials, which constituted the foundations for a new field of scholarship and internationally celebrated museum collections. Both then and since, the understanding of Gandhran art has been impeded by gaps in documentation, haphazard excavation, forgery, and smuggling of antiquities. Consequently, the study of Gandhran archaeology often involves the evaluation and piecing together of fragmentary clues. In more subtle ways, however, the modern view of Gandhran art has been shaped by the significance accorded to it by different observers over the past century and a half. Conceived in the imperial context of the late nineteenth century as 'Graeco-Buddhist' art - a hybrid of Asian religion and Mediterranean artistic form - Gandhran art has been invested with various meanings since then, both in and beyond the academic sphere. Its puzzling links to the classical world of Greece and Rome have been explained from different perspectives, informed both by evolving perceptions of the evidence and by modern circumstances. <br><br> From the archaeologists and smugglers of the Raj to the museums of post-partition Pakistan and India, from coin-forgers and contraband to modern Buddhism and contemporary art, this fourth volume of the Classical Art Research Centre's Gandhra Connections project presents the most recent research on the factors that mediate our encounter with Gandhran art." |
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Art, Gandhara -- Congresses.
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Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan) -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Buddhism in art -- Congresses.
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Art du Gndhra -- Congrès.
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Bouddhisme dans l'art -- Congrès.
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History of art: ancient & classical art, BCE to c 500 CE.
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Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
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ART -- History -- Ancient & Classical.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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ART / History / Ancient & Classical
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Antiquities
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Art, Gandhara
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Buddhism in art
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Asia -- Gandhara
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Added Author |
Rienjang, Wannaporn, editor.
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Stewart, Peter, 1971- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: International Workshop of the Gandhran Connections Project (4th : 2021 : University of Oxford). Rediscovery and reception of Gandhran art. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2022] 1803272333 (OCoLC)1303557437 |
| ISBN |
9781803272344 (electronic bk.) |
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1803272341 (electronic bk.) |
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9781803272337 |
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