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Painting and Performance

Victor H. Mair

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Description:Mair (Chinese, U. of Pennsylvania) traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China known as pie-wen, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using paintings as an aid, and showing how that form has influenced performance and literary traditions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Central Asia, the Near East, Italy, France, and Germany. Numerous bandw illustrations (60 p.), extensive bibliography (40 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, ORWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Painting and Performance. To get started finding Painting and Performance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 1988

ISBN: IddkAAAAMAAJ

Description: Mair (Chinese, U. of Pennsylvania) traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China known as pie-wen, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using paintings as an aid, and showing how that form has influenced performance and literary traditions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Central Asia, the Near East, Italy, France, and Germany. Numerous bandw illustrations (60 p.), extensive bibliography (40 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, ORWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Painting and Performance. To get started finding Painting and Performance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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