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Sarah E. Fraser - Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 - 9780804745338 - V9780804745338
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Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960

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Description for Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 Hardback. This book provides an insightful new study, drawn from the largely unpublished Buddhist paintings at Dunhuang, of medieval Chinese wall painting, workshop production, and artistic performance in theory and practice. Num Pages: 400 pages, 4 tables, 155 illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FC; 1FPC; AFC; AGR; HBT; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 29. Weight in Grams: 975.

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 Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies.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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804745338
SKU
V9780804745338
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Sarah E. Fraser
Sarah E. Fraser is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.

Reviews for Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960
"Fraser's book contains a tremendous wealth of information on painters and their practice at Dunhuang,and for this it is invaluable."—Religious Studies Review "...students and scholars will find many observations and alayses both interesting and challenging, yet the neophyte too will find this a good starting place for further pursuits of their own special interests. Simply put, this book is among ... Read more

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