Painting and Performance
| Author | : Victor H. Mair |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2019-03-31 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780824881146 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0824881141 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (141 Downloads) |
Download or read book Painting and Performance written by Victor H. Mair and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary work of scholarship, Victor Mair traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China known as pien-wen, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using painting 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. Professor Mair's research has important implications for students and scholars of literature, folklore, painting, religion, history, art, and theater and the performing arts, not to mention Chinese popular culture and Indian civilization.
