Performing the Visual

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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 Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters’ pictorial strategies.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- a...(展開全部) 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 Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters’ pictorial strategies.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. 胡素馨 Sarah Fraser 原執教於西北大學，現為德國海德堡大學任職。本書為其博士論文基礎上出版，主題關於唐代敦煌的繪畫與表演藝術。另刊載《亞洲藝術》（Artibus Asiae）2000年3\4：製作的程式: 敦煌畫家的畫稿與複製技術。 Sarah E. Fraser (Ph.D. 1996, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor) teaches and researches primarily in Chinese painting with an emphasis on questions of artistic enterprise in medieval Buddhist art, early development of photography, and national identity format...(展開全部) 胡素馨 Sarah Fraser 原執教於西北大學，現為德國海德堡大學任職。本書為其博士論文基礎上出版，主題關於唐代敦煌的繪畫與表演藝術。另刊載《亞洲藝術》（Artibus Asiae）2000年3\4：製作的程式: 敦煌畫家的畫稿與複製技術。 Sarah E. Fraser (Ph.D. 1996, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor) teaches and re

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