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Article: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 2005
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Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960, by Sarah E. Fraser. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 342 pp. $65.00 US (cloth).
Performing the Visual is a fascinating study of the artistic process involved in the conception and rendering of wall paintings in the Mogao and Yulin Grottos at Dunhuang, Gansu province, one of China's most important groups of Buddhist cave temples. Sarah Fraser takes as her subject a group of rarely published blackand-white sketches discovered in the early twentieth-century library cave at Dunhuang made famous because of the large cache of early Buddhist texts discovered ...