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Hardcover Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 Book
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ISBN: 0804745331

ISBN13: 9780804745338

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

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 Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies.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

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