http://lacma.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/chinese-art-is-back/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://lacma.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/chinese-art-is-back/#comment-8884 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:27:13 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=10209#comment-8884 Please consider an exhibition on Yunnan, in China’s southwest. There are some excellent pieces from Nanzhao (a Tang-dynasty contemporary kingdom) scattered in the SF Asian Art Gallery, (from memory) the Guimet, and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. Great themes of connectedness through India and Southeast Asia… see ‘The Art of NOT Being Governed’ (James C. Scott, Yale) for a good background on how unique the region is protohistorically. You have the melding of Tibetan, Mahayanist and Theravadin Buddhist art. There’s are also stupendous amounts of modern textiles, and I can put you in touch with a former textiles curator for the minorities museum here in Kunming (Yunnan’s capital). In addition, there’s no shortage of bronze drums (a pan northern-SEA phenomenon). lacquerware wooden armour from the Yi people (loanable from Sichuan University Museum, Yunnan University Anthropology Museum, amongst others), etc.

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