Realms Beyond

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" Realms Beyond "
Fei Deng

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081786
Doc. No	:	LA125415
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02001004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Fei Deng
Title & Author	:	Realms Beyond [Article]\ Fei Deng
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/1-2
Page No	:	59–91
Abstract	:	This article explores a mysterious but well-studied pictorial subject in Chinese visual art, namely the half-open door. The scene often shows a female figure standing in or emerging from the middle of two door-leaves, suggesting a path or an access to a certain space and also indicating a view incompatible with what the viewer has already seen. This pictorial theme frequently adorns stone sarcophagi and tomb walls in northern China from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. By examining the forms and meanings of the motif, this study attempts to demonstrate the ways in which the half-open door was employed in funerary art and helped people to visualize prevailing ideas about the afterlife.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	funerary art
Descriptor	:	half-open door
Descriptor	:	heavenly worlds
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	northern China
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Song and Jin periods
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02001004‬