Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960
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Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960
Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960

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Sarah E. Fraser (Author)  

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Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies. She also examines the financial accounting of Buddhist temples, providing practical information that ninth- and tenth-century critics ignored: how artists were paid and when, the temple's role as mediator between patrons and artists, and the way painters functioned outside the monastic system, working in guilds and secular academies affiliated with local government. Based on the careful study of hundreds of inaccessible wall paintings at Dunhuang, arguably Asia's largest and most important Buddhist site, the author shows that although critics celebrated spontaneous feats with brush and ink, artists at Dunhuang were heavily dependent on concrete tools such as sketches in the preparation of wall painting. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Sarah E. Fraser is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.
  • Contributor: Sarah E. Fraser
  • Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780804745338
  • Number of Pages: 400
  • Packaged Dimensions: 178x254mm
  • Packaged Weight: 989
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Release Date: 2003-11-18
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Sarah E. Fraser is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.

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