Wu Hung

Spatial Dunhuang (eBook, ePUB)

Experiencing the Mogao Caves

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most continuously created, and best-preserved treasure trove of Buddhist art in the world. Previous overviews of the art of Dunhuang have traced the caves' unilinear history. This book examines the caves from the perspective of space, treating them as physical and historical sites that can be approached, entered, and understood sensually. It prioritizes the actual experiences of the people of the past who built and used the caves.

Five spatial contexts provide rich material for analysis: Dunhuang as a multicultural historic place; the Mogao Cave complex as an evolving entity; the interior space of caves; interaction of the visual program with architectural space; and pictorial space within wall paintings that draws viewers into an otherworldly time. With its novel approach to this repository of religious art, Spatial Dunhuang will be a must-read for anyone interested in Buddhist art and for visitors to Dunhuang.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295750217
• Artikelnr.: 68403739

Autorenporträt

Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Contemporary Chinese Art: A History, 1970s2000s (Thames & Hudson, 2014), Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu (University of California Press, 2013), Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Princeton University Press, 2012), Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010), Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (University of Chicago Press, 2005), Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting (University of Chicago Press, 1996), and Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (Stanford University Press, 1995).