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Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 |
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Author |
Fraser, Sarah Elizabeth (著)
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Edition | 1st Edition |
Date | 2004 |
Pages | 342 |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Publisher Url |
http://www.sup.org
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Location | Albany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國] |
Content type | 書籍=Book |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Sarah E. Fraser is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. |
Keyword | 佛教人物=Buddhist; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 繪畫=painting |
Abstract | 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 Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies.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. |
ISBN | 9780804745338 (hc); 0804745331 (hc) |
Related reviews | - Book Review: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. By Sarah E. Fraser / Miller, T. (評論)
- Book Review: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. By Sarah E. Fraser / Howard, Angela Falco (評論)
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Created date | 2005.04.08 |
Modified date | 2023.07.11 |

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