Narrative agency in thirteenth-fourteenth century Chan figure painting : a study of hagiography-iconography text-image relationships

This thesis examines the relationships between image and text in paintings of Chan Buddhist figural subjects from thirteenth and fourteenth century China. Its central contention is that the visual qualities of these paintings, and the lexical content of the inscriptions upon them, made complex allus...

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Main Author: McNeill, Malcolm L. S.
Published: SOAS, University of London 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722858