Author: Sarah E. Fraser. Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Title: Performing the Visual. Based on the careful study of hundreds of inaccessible wall paintings at Dunhuang, arguably Asia's largest and most important Buddhist site, the author shows that although critics celebrated spontaneous feats with brush and ink, artists at Dunhuang were heavily dependent on concrete tools such as sketches in the preparation of wall painting.
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