'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 form 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"...' excerpt from the back cover

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REF.HAC3
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English

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1999

No of pages

220

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1861890397

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1

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monograph

Chapter headings

The Image of Tibet in the West

The Image of Tibet in Exile

Beyond the Boundaries of Tradition

The Chinese Image of Tibet

The Tibetan Image of the Tibet Autonomous Region

'Tibets' in Collision: Conclusions

In The Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting After 1959
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In The Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting After 1959