Visualizing Dunhuang : seeing, studying, and conserving the caves
Title:
Visualizing Dunhuang : seeing, studying, and conserving the caves
Author:
Ching, Dora C. Y., editor, contributor.
ISBN:
9780691208169
Publication Information:
Princeton, New Jersey : P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University : in association with Princeton University Press, c2021.
Physical Description:
397 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm
Contents:
Preface and acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Chronologies -- Map -- Introduction / Dora C.Y. Chng -- DUNHUANG AS HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. The Lo Archive's place in documentary, expeditionary, and art photography during China's Republican period / Dora C.Y. Chng and Richard K. Kent -- The Dunhuang collection in the Hermitage / Maria L. Menshikova -- The significance of the Lo Archive / Zhao Shengliang -- Buddhist art at Dunhuang and the Lo Archive / Roderick Whitfield -- DUNHUANG AS SITE: ARCHITECTURE AND SETTING. Architecture and land on the dark side of the moon: the Mogao caves and Mount Sanwei / Cary Y. Liu -- What did "architecture" do in visualizing Dunhuang? / Wei-cheng Lin -- Conserving the Mogao grottoes: the thirty-year collaboration of the Dunhuang Academy and the Getty Conservation Institute / Neville Agnew -- DUNHUANG AS ART AND ART HISTORY. Reflections on early Dunhuang caves: textiles, thrones, and crowns / Annette Juliano -- Narrative, architecture, and figuration in Mogao cave 420 / Jun Hu -- Dunhuang's contribution to Chinese art history: a historiographic inquiry / Jerome Silbergeld -- Bibliography -- Index-glossary -- Image credits.
Abstract:
"Located at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient Silk Road on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in western China, Dunhuang is one of the richest Buddhist sites in China with nearly 500 cave temples constructed between the fourth and the fourteenth century. The sculptures, murals, portable paintings, and manuscripts found in the caves represent every aspect of Buddhism, both doctrinally and artistically. From its earliest construction to the present, Dunhuang has been visualized in many ways by the architects, builders, and artists who made the caves to twentieth-century explorers and photographers, conservators, and contemporary artists. This book explores ways in which Dunhuang has been visualized from its creation to contemporary times. Essays by leading scholars from the U.S., Europe, and China cover a wide range of topics, from the architecture of cave temples to painting and sculptural programs, Buddhist ritual practices, expeditionary photography, conservation, and the contributions of Dunhuang to art history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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