Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang Art History on the Silk Road Second Edition

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This book offers a revised and expanded expect at a world-renowned creative treasure and its conversation. The Mogao grottoes in Red china, situated near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute ane of the globe's near significant sites of Buddhist art. The hundreds of caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi desert preserve g years of exquisite art. Founded by Buddhist monks every bit an isolated monastery in the late quaternary century, Mogao evolved into an artistic and spiritual mecca whose renown extended from the Chinese capital to the Western Kingdoms of the Silk Route. Among its treasures are miles of stunning wall paintings, more than than two thousand statues, magnificent works on silk and newspaper, and thousands of aboriginal manuscripts, such as sutras, poems, and prayer sheets. In this new expanded edition, Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang, beginning published in 2000, combines lavish colour photographs of the caves and their art with the fascinating history of the Silk Road to create a vivid portrait of this remarkable site.Chapters narrate the development of Dunhuang and the Mogao cave temples, the iconography of the wall paintings, and the extraordinary story of the rare manuscripts-including the oldest printed book in beingness, a ninth-century copy of the Diamond Sutra. The book also discusses the collaboration betwixt the Getty Conservation Plant and Chinese authorities in conservation projects at Mogao, and the ways in which the site can be visited today.

RODERICK WHITFIELD is Percival David Professor emeritus in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. SUSAN WHITFIELD is caput of the International Dunhuang Project, British Library. NEVILLE AGNEW is a master project specialist at the Getty Conservation Plant.

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