Experts have completed a comprehensive investigation on the folk
art in China's Tibet
Autonomous Region after more than 20 years of painstaking
efforts, according to the researchers.
Artists and Tibetologists have traced Tibetan folk art in more
than 70 counties during the past two decades and collected numerous
written materials, some 5,000 pictures, 1,000 hours of audio
records and 700 hours of video tapes, said Gaeqoe, deputy head of
Lhasa-based Institute on Tibetan Folk Art, who has led the
investigation for 10 years.
The investigation, the largest over the past 40 years, provides
critical information on the folk art and artists in the region and
paves the way for further academic research on the treasures,
Gaeqoe said.
In some remote villages, experts also found a handful of
valuable artistic styles and forms that academics believed had
perished long ago.
He added that it will take time for scholars to categorize and
analyze the materials, although some research achievements have
already been published.
(Xinhua News Agency November 7, 2004)