A history of Tibetan painting. The great Tibetan painters and their traditions

Wien: Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996. 4to, pp. 456; text illustrations throughout, some in color; pictorial boards; some light toning to edges, else fine. A fundamental reference for western research on Tibetan painting from the mid-15th through 20th centuries "on the basis of both the surviving pictorial remains and the extensive written sources that survive in the Tibetan language. It attempts to identify and date the main painting schools of post-14th-century Tibet and locates for the first time paintings that can confidently be linked to some of the founding masters. The book includes a survey of the main available Tibetan sources (truncated) and studies, both traditional and modern, as well as a detailed summary of previous Western research on the subject. (Inventory #: 69680)