Word Embodied by Halle Oneal

Word Embodied by Halle Oneal

Halle O'Neal unpacks jeweled pagoda mandala paintings and their revolutionary entwining of word and image to reveal crucial dynamics underlying Japanese Buddhist art-including invisibility, performative viewing, and the spectacular visualizations of embodiment.

O’Neal’s new book untangles these mandalas’ visual and performative complexityImpressively researched and broadly conceived, the five chapters of this study investigate the key aspects of the jeweled pagoda mandalas’ composition, their textual and visual content, and the historical and cross-cultural contexts of their production…The feast of visual material investigated in O’Neal’s book is so rich. -- Anna Andreeva * Journal of Japanese Studies *
Lively, provocative, and ambitious…Stands out as a very impressive, well-researched, satisfying, and nearly exhaustive study of relatively undocumented paintings and their historical circumstances…Serves in many ways as a model for scholarship on premodern Japanese Buddhist icons. -- Cynthea J. Bogel * Monumenta Nipponica *

Halle O’Neal is a Reader in Japanese Buddhist Art in the History of Art Department and co-director of the Edinburgh Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is also co-editor of the journal Buddhist Studies Review and a trustee of the Association for Art History.

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ISBN 13	9780674983861
ISBN 10	0674983866
Title	Word Embodied
Author	Halle Oneal
Series	Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harvard University, Asia Center
Year published	2018-08-06
Number of pages	310
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.