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The museum on the roof of the world : art, politics, and the representation of Tibet /

by Harris, Clare.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Buddhism and modernity: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012Description: xi, 314 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780226317472 (hardcover : alkaline paper); ; 0226317471 (hardcover : alkaline paper); .Subject(s): Xizang bo wu guan -- History | Tibet Museum (Dharmsāla, India) -- History | Art, Tibetan -- Appreciation -- History | Art, Tibetan -- Museums -- History | Tantric-Buddhist art -- Appreciation -- History | Tibet Region -- Museums -- History
Contents:
The Tibet Museum in the West -- The Younghusband mission and Tibetan art -- Picturing Tibet for the Imperial Archive -- Photography and the politics of memory -- The Tibet Museum in exile -- The Tibet Museum in Lhasa -- The invention of Tibetan contemporary art -- The Buddha goes global.
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N7346 T5 H37 2012 (Browse shelf) Available 00003040
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Tibet Museum in the West -- The Younghusband mission and Tibetan art -- Picturing Tibet for the Imperial Archive -- Photography and the politics of memory -- The Tibet Museum in exile -- The Tibet Museum in Lhasa -- The invention of Tibetan contemporary art -- The Buddha goes global.


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