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Detail of a figure wearing a headdress, jewelry, and flowing robes sits on a bench-like wood plinth with its right foot on the plinth and its left leg hanging down. The left arm supports the body, the palm flat on the plinth. The right arm rests on the right knee, fingers curved and outstretched. The figure gazes down. The figure is primarily peach and a brownish orange, with darker brown hair and red lips. Detail of a figure wearing a headdress, jewelry, and flowing robes sits on a bench-like wood plinth with its right foot on the plinth and its left leg hanging down. The left arm supports the body, the palm flat on the plinth. The right arm rests on the right knee, fingers curved and outstretched. The figure gazes down. The figure is primarily peach and a brownish orange, with darker brown hair and red lips.

Perspectives on
In/stability

Edited by
Delinda Collier and
Robyn Farrell

Director's Foreword Credits

Forces of In/stability Edo Spaces, European Images: Iterations of Art and Architecture of Benin The Color of Fire Is Flux Stability Isn't Everything It's Glitched Up to Be: An Interview with Jamie Fenton Seven-Figure Settlements and Paid Days Off: An Interview with Devin Kenny From Cloth to Clay: Identities and Im/permanence in Moche Ceramics Empty Fields Revisited Seeking Balance: Material and Meaning in a Polychrome Guanyin

This publication, the first in the three-volume Perspectives series, explores how stability and instability manifest in and shape artworks, the narratives we tell about them, and how we present them.

Contributions

How to Cite

Cybele Tom, Clara Granzotto, and Ken Sutherland, “Seeking Balance: Material and Meaning in a Polychrome Guanyin,” in Perspectives on In/stability, ed. Delinda Collier and Robyn Farrell (Art Institute of Chicago, 2022).

This essay has been peer reviewed through an open-review process.

© 2022 by The Art Institute of Chicago. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

https://doi.org/10.53269/26939851/01/08

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