Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
Publishing Details
Publisher
Skira
Imprint
Skira
Publication Date
15 February 2016
Publication Country
Italy
Description
Tibetan culture and artistic tradition were virtually unknown in the West until the eight major expeditions led by Giuseppe Tucci between 1926 and 1948. This catalogue retraces his travels through period photographs and his contributions to the study of Tibetan art. In addition to Tucci's photographs, it presents a collection of paintings from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, enabling readers to discover Tibetan art with particular reference to compositional style, iconography, and the reading of a tangka.
Author Biography
Deborah Klimburg-Salter is an art historian and professor of non-European art history at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna