Art of Thangka: A Catalogue of the Hahn Foundation for Museum, Vol. 2

Kimiaki, Tanaka ed.

Published by Hahn, Kwang-ho, Seoul, Korea, 1999

About this Item

A bilingual edition in English and in Korean; translated from the Japanese. First printing of the first edition. Printed and bound in South Korea. This publication is Vol. 2 from the seven volume series, Art of Thangka: A Catalogue of the Hahn Foundation for Museum. 12.75 x 10.25 inches. Bound in terra cotta colored cloth hardboards, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the front board and to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. Attractive illustrated pastedowns/FEPs. With 229 numbered pages, all of heavy coated stock. The chapter headings and plate sections are: mandala, tsokshing; tathagatas; patriarchs; tutelary & wrathful deities; Avalokiteshvara & other Bodhisattvas; dharma-protecting deities; arhats; miscellaneous; art of the Bon religion. With color plates of 100 thangkas, often with more than one illustration per thangka. With detailed notes accompanying each plate. Also with accompanying diagrams. An immensely clean interior. Almost certainly unread. The attractive full-pictorial slipcase with trivial rubbing. A Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Scarce in any condition. 4 lbs. 15 oz. A tangkasnet, variously spelled as thangka, tangka, thanka, tangkasnet or tanka is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk, appliqué or human skin usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala. These thangkas all come from the Himalayas and were the basis for Hahn's proposed museum of Chinese, Korean & Japanese art. The Hahn Foundation collection contains some 700 thangkas. They are mostly in original condition, unlike the often heavily restored and/or overpainted thangkas in Western collections. The full set of 7 volumes on thangkas from the Hahn Foundation for Museum was published over a span of 18 years. Individual volumes are hard to find; complete sets are especially scarce.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art of Thangka: A Catalogue of the Hahn Foundation for Museum, Vol. 2
• Publisher: Hahn, Kwang-ho, Seoul, Korea
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religious and Funerary Art
  • Asian Art