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

by Sarah Fraser

Book Overview

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 Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a long-hidden medieval library in western China, the author analyzes the painters' pictorial strategies.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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745331
• ISBN13: 9780804745338
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.3"