The Making of Mongol Buddhist Art and Architecture

Isabelle Charleux (1)

1 GSRL - Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités

This article looks at a major section of Mongol artistic heritage--the arts produced for over two thousand Buddhist monasteries--and asks what is Mongol-designed and Mongol-made about them, and what were the respective roles and specialities of Mongol and foreign artists and artisans. It addresses the issues of the ethnicity and ethnic style of carpenters, painters, sculptors and other artisans in pre-1911 Mongol society through an examination of the development of an original Mongol style.

Mots clés: art; crafts; Mongolia; Inner Mongolia; architecture; Hohhot; Dolonnor; blacksmiths; silversmiths; painters; sculptors; art market

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art

Isabelle Charleux. The Making of Mongol Buddhist Art and Architecture: Artisans in Mongolia from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Elvira Eevr Djaltchinova-Malets. Meditation. The art of Zanabazar and his school, catalogue trilingue (polonais, anglais, mongol) de exposition éponyme organisée au Asia and Pacific Museum, The Asia and Pacific Museum, p. 59-105, 2010. ⟨halshs-00702140⟩