The artisans /
"Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting three Uighur Princes from one of the Bezeklik Caves along the Northern Silk Road, in what is now the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. This most renowned donor portrait of Uighur-Buddhist art was brought to t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss : Diaphanes,
[2025]
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| Series: | Objects talk back.
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| Summary: | "Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting three Uighur Princes from one of the Bezeklik Caves along the Northern Silk Road, in what is now the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. This most renowned donor portrait of Uighur-Buddhist art was brought to the Berlin museums following the Second German Turfan Expedition (1904-5). Thien responds to its vibrant colors and expressive lines with a fictional text, transporting us into the daily lives of the painters who adorned the caves with strikingly lifelike murals in the tenth century. She asks: Is there an autonomous republic of art that transcends time and place?" -- |
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| Item Description: | "The Artisans in a work of fiction imagined from the surviving fragments of Bezeklik Cave 20" -- page 39. |
| Physical Description: | 45 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783035807943 3035807949 |