Michael R. Cunningham
Buddhist Treasures from Nara
Exh. cat.
Cleveland:
Hudson Hills Press in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art,
1997.
286 pp.; 175 color ills.; 83 b/w ills.
$50.00
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April 30, 1999
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The Cleveland Museum of Art held a monumental exhibition of Buddhist art from August 9 through September 27, 1998. Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan writes in her catalogue essay that “the Cleveland Museum of Art, in bringing the art of the Nara National Museum before an American audience . . . in all their [its] richness and diversity, is in itself an act of lasting merit that helps to preserve one of the great traditions of Asian...