In the Image of Tibet - Tibet Painting After 1959 (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

A study of the ways in which the idea of Tibet has been imagined by Tibetan artists both in exile in India and under Chinese rule in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of the People's Republic of China. Taking the year of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet in 1959 as its starting point and an indicator of the rupture which Tibetan society underwent at this time, this text shows how exiled artists and their audiences negotiated the reconstruction of Tibet in India whilst in the TAR, the visual landscape was colonized by Chinese depictions of Tibet, and what the Republic now saw as national minority - Tibetans.