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No textbook is available in a Western language, but this gap is filled partially by a few exhibition
Buddhist Art and Architecture in catalogues under the category of “academic publications.” Heissig and Müller 1989 gives an
Tibet excellent overview of material culture, with short essays on many different topics. Müller and Pleiger
Buddhist Art and Architecture on 2005 focuses on recent discoveries. Berger and Bartholomew 1995 was produced for a blockbuster
the "Silk Road" exhibition and is now considered the best introduction to Buddhist arts of Mongolia in the modern
Images period; it also served as a basis for the following catalogues. Famous painter, art critic, and curator
at the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts (Ulaanbaatar/Ulan-Bator) (late) Nyam-Ochir Tsültem
Forthcoming Articles (Tsultem) published a selection of masterpieces from Mongolia in a well-known series of books on
sculpture (Tsultem 1989), material culture (Tsultem 1987), painting, and architecture (Tsultem 1986
Bon
[cited under Mongolian Buddhist Art, 16th–21st Centuries]) and Tsultem 1988 (cited under
Buddhism and Yoga Photograph Books and Websites); their synthetic texts give a concise but valuable introduction to
Diversity and Inclusion in American Mongolian arts and architecture. In Chinese, Amuer Batu 1997 and Ge 1999 are two complementary
Convert Buddhism overviews of Mongolian art and architecture, with a focus on Inner Mongolia; the former particularly
Find more forthcoming articles... develops archaeological findings; the latter gives biographies of artists and quotes publications from
Mongolia.
Amuer Batu 阿木爾巴圖 (Mo. Amur Batu, = Bao Yuxiang 鮑玉祥). Mengguzu meishu yanjiu (蒙
古族美術研究). Liaoyang, China: Liaoning minzu chubanshe, 1997.
Chronological comprehensive overview of material culture and art in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia,
written by an Inner Mongolian art historian.
Berger, Patricia, and Terese Tse Bartholomew, eds. Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.
Catalogue of 112 exhibits selected from museums and libraries of Ulaanbaatar, with innovative and
well-researched contributions on Mongolian art, including essays on history, scripts, nomadic life,
Buddhist festivals, and iconography.
Heissig, Walther, and Claudius C. Müller, eds. Die Mongolen: Haus der Kunst. 2 vols.
Innsbruck, Austria: Umschau, 1989.
First great exhibit of Mongolian art and artifacts of the Ulaanbaatar museums from the Neolithic to
the modern period (Volume 1), with fifty-nine short essays written by prominent European Mongolists
(Volume 2). Of special interest here are essays on handicrafts, appliqués, smiths, bone sculptures,
tsam dances, and illustrated manuscripts.
Müller, Claudius, and Henriette Pleiger, eds. Dschingis Khan und seine Erben: Das Weltreich
der Mongolen. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2005.
Catalogue of an exhibition presented in Bonn, Munich, and Istanbul. There are 486 items from
museums in Europe and Asia covering 2,000 years of material culture. Included are synthetic essays
on various topics, including the Buddhist manuscripts of Kharbukhyn Balgas and recent
archaeological findings at Kharakhorum and Erdene Zuu Monastery.
Tsultem, N. Mongolian Arts and Crafts. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: State Publishing House, 1987.
Overview of a variety of arts and crafts from museums of Mongolia and Buryatia. Synthetic
introduction in four languages (Russian, English, French, and Spanish).
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