Martin Brauen; Guo Dalie; He Limin; He Zhonghua; Cindy Ho; Lamu Gatusa; Christine Mathieu; Alexis Michaud; Silvia B. Sutton; Yang Fuquan; Rubin Museum of Art; ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers

A comprehensive introduction to over a thousand years of Naxi culture, art and religion, which presents the outstanding objects of the Quentin Roosevelt Collection, the most complete collection of Naxi Dongba art in the world.

Brauen, Martin, Guo Dalie, He Limin, He Zhonghua, Cindy Ho, Lamu Gatusa, Christine Mathieu, Alexis Michaud, Silvia B. Sutton, and Yang Fuquan. Quentin Roosevelt’s China: Ancestral Realms of the Naxi. Edited by Christine Mathieu and Cindy Ho. New York: Rubin Museum of Art; Stuttgart: ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers, 2011.

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Martin Brauen, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, curator, and author. From 2008 to 2011 he was chief curator at the Rubin Museum. Since his retirement he has independently curated several exhibitions, including Bill Viola: Passions at the Cathedral of Bern and The Cosmos at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, and published A Sameness Between Us: The Friendship of Charmion von Wiegand and Piet Mondrian in Letters and Memoirs.

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