Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family
The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world’s largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang’s cross-disciplinary...
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Zusammenfassung: | The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world’s largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang’s cross-disciplinary exploration of the interrelationship of art, religion, and politics during the Tang. The author combines, in his careful examination of the paintings and sculptures found there, the historical study of pictures with the pictorial study of history. By employing this two-fold approach, he is able to refer to textual evidence in interpreting the formal features of the cave temple paintings and to employ visual details to fill in the historical gaps inevitably left by text-oriented scholars. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the visual culture of the period and a vivid description of social life in medieval China. The original Zhai Family Cave pictures were painted over in the tenth century and remained hidden until the early 1940s. Once exposed, the early artwork appeared fresh and colorful in comparison with other Tang paintings at Dunhuang. The relatively fine condition of the Zhai Family Cave is crucial to our understanding of the original pictorial program found there and offers a unique opportunity to investigate the visual details of the original paintings and sculptures in the cave. At the same time, the remaining traces of reconstruction and redecoration provide a new perspective on how, for over three centuries, a wealthy Chinese clan used its familial cave as a political showcase |
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spelling | Ning, Qiang aut Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Qiang Ning Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2004] © 2004 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018) The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world’s largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang’s cross-disciplinary exploration of the interrelationship of art, religion, and politics during the Tang. The author combines, in his careful examination of the paintings and sculptures found there, the historical study of pictures with the pictorial study of history. By employing this two-fold approach, he is able to refer to textual evidence in interpreting the formal features of the cave temple paintings and to employ visual details to fill in the historical gaps inevitably left by text-oriented scholars. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the visual culture of the period and a vivid description of social life in medieval China. The original Zhai Family Cave pictures were painted over in the tenth century and remained hidden until the early 1940s. Once exposed, the early artwork appeared fresh and colorful in comparison with other Tang paintings at Dunhuang. The relatively fine condition of the Zhai Family Cave is crucial to our understanding of the original pictorial program found there and offers a unique opportunity to investigate the visual details of the original paintings and sculptures in the cave. At the same time, the remaining traces of reconstruction and redecoration provide a new perspective on how, for over three centuries, a wealthy Chinese clan used its familial cave as a political showcase In English Geschichte 600-700 gnd rswk-swf Art, Chinese Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 Buddhist art China Dunhuang Caves Buddhist mural painting and decoration China Dunhuang Caves Mural painting and decoration, Chinese China Dunhuang Caves Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd rswk-swf Felsbild (DE-588)4016718-5 gnd rswk-swf China (DE-588)4009937-4 gnd rswk-swf Mogaogrotten Dunhuang (DE-588)4332149-5 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4113937-9 Hochschulschrift gnd-content China (DE-588)4009937-4 g Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 s Geschichte 600-700 z 2\p DE-604 Mogaogrotten Dunhuang (DE-588)4332149-5 g Felsbild (DE-588)4016718-5 s 3\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824861490 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
spellingShingle | Ning, Qiang Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Art, Chinese Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 Buddhist art China Dunhuang Caves Buddhist mural painting and decoration China Dunhuang Caves Mural painting and decoration, Chinese China Dunhuang Caves Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd Felsbild (DE-588)4016718-5 gnd |
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title | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family |
title_auth | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family |
title_exact_search | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family |
title_full | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Qiang Ning |
title_fullStr | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Qiang Ning |
title_full_unstemmed | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family Qiang Ning |
title_short | Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China |
title_sort | art religion and politics in medieval china the dunhuang cave of the zhai family |
title_sub | The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family |
topic | Art, Chinese Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 Buddhist art China Dunhuang Caves Buddhist mural painting and decoration China Dunhuang Caves Mural painting and decoration, Chinese China Dunhuang Caves Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd Felsbild (DE-588)4016718-5 gnd |
topic_facet | Art, Chinese Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960 Buddhist art China Dunhuang Caves Buddhist mural painting and decoration China Dunhuang Caves Mural painting and decoration, Chinese China Dunhuang Caves Kultur Felsbild China Mogaogrotten Dunhuang Hochschulschrift |
url | https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824861490 |
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