Softcover, 220 pages, bw and color illustrations, London 1999, as new
In the Image of Tibet is a unique study of the ways in which the idea of Tibet has been imagined by Tibetan artists both in exile in India and in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (T.A.R.) of the People's Republic of China. Taking 1959, the year of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet, as signalling the beginning of the Tibetan diaspora, Clare Harris shows how exiled artists and their audiences negotiated Tibet's reconstruction in India. In the T.A.R., meanwhile, the visual landscape was colonized by Chinese depictions of Tibet and of Tibetans represented as a national 'minority'. In the Image of Tibet provides visual evidence of these concerns, including many images which are virtually unknown amongst non-Tibetans.
| Autor: | Claire Harris |