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Performing the Visual - The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (Hardcover, Revised)
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Performing the Visual - The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (Hardcover, Revised)
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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unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval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.
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