Scholars and curators of major art collections have paid relatively little attention to the art o... more Scholars and curators of major art collections have paid relatively little attention to the art of Burma. Colonized late by a power preoccupied with India, and ruled since independence by governments whose cultural policies have emphasised national unity, Burma, and her art* ...
This is a story that will appeal to all scholars involved with the interpretation of rock art. Fi... more This is a story that will appeal to all scholars involved with the interpretation of rock art. Figures depicted on rock surfaces in jungle terrain patrolled by soldier ants were thought in the nineteenth century to record an otherwise unknown early episode of invasion and resistance -and were widely published as such. A recent survey by a Myanmar-Australian team has made more correct records of the earlier forms and now offers fresh interpretations: the carvings are due to fifteenthnineteenth century artisans working at quarries producing objects for the town of Mrauk-U, and they evoke local creatures and architectural echoes of the town and temples on which they worked.
... 38988711. Ancient Arakan (1976). Gutman, Pamela. Abstract. ... The first chapter deals with t... more ... 38988711. Ancient Arakan (1976). Gutman, Pamela. Abstract. ... The first chapter deals with the geographical and ethnolinguistic background to the development of the earliest cities. In the second, all the inscriptions of the period, in Sanskrit, Pali and Pyu are catalogued and edited ...
Publication View. 56669398. Ancient Arakan : with special reference to its cultural history betwe... more Publication View. 56669398. Ancient Arakan : with special reference to its cultural history between the 5th and 11th centuries / (1976). Gutman, Pamela. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Australian National University, 1976.. Includes bibliographical references. ...
Scholars and curators of major art collections have paid relatively little attention to the art o... more Scholars and curators of major art collections have paid relatively little attention to the art of Burma. Colonized late by a power preoccupied with India, and ruled since independence by governments whose cultural policies have emphasised national unity, Burma, and her art* ...
This is a story that will appeal to all scholars involved with the interpretation of rock art. Fi... more This is a story that will appeal to all scholars involved with the interpretation of rock art. Figures depicted on rock surfaces in jungle terrain patrolled by soldier ants were thought in the nineteenth century to record an otherwise unknown early episode of invasion and resistance -and were widely published as such. A recent survey by a Myanmar-Australian team has made more correct records of the earlier forms and now offers fresh interpretations: the carvings are due to fifteenthnineteenth century artisans working at quarries producing objects for the town of Mrauk-U, and they evoke local creatures and architectural echoes of the town and temples on which they worked.
... 38988711. Ancient Arakan (1976). Gutman, Pamela. Abstract. ... The first chapter deals with t... more ... 38988711. Ancient Arakan (1976). Gutman, Pamela. Abstract. ... The first chapter deals with the geographical and ethnolinguistic background to the development of the earliest cities. In the second, all the inscriptions of the period, in Sanskrit, Pali and Pyu are catalogued and edited ...
Publication View. 56669398. Ancient Arakan : with special reference to its cultural history betwe... more Publication View. 56669398. Ancient Arakan : with special reference to its cultural history between the 5th and 11th centuries / (1976). Gutman, Pamela. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Australian National University, 1976.. Includes bibliographical references. ...
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