The travel of a thangka

Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391269
AutoresM Xue (0000-0002-7488-1635, American Museum of Natural History, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas102-121
Fecha de publicación2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13591835231193969
OpenAlexW4385701923
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas26

The article examines how the life experiences of a Tibetan female thangka painter, Lutsojam (known as Lutso), are intertwined with the meaning of her artworks, in particular, with the thangka painting, "Avalokiteśvara with Mind at Rest," which I followed from its birth in Amdo Rebgong (Qinghai, China), to its visit to an art gallery in Beijing, and finally to its entry into the collection of an ethnographic museum in New York. Through painting thangkas and training her own apprentices (especially female apprentices), Lutso is able to support her family, empower other Tibetan women, and authenticate a religious identity that has been elided in the official narrative of Tibetan thangka art

Aesthetics · Apprenticeship · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Beijing · Border crossing · Calligraphy · China · Ethnography · Identity (music · Immigration · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Painting · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies