Title: Performing the visual
Description: Relying on rare, virtually unpublished drawings on Buddhist themes from a medieval library in western China, this study analyses the painters' pictorial strategies, revealing artists' dependancy on concrete tools such as sketches in the preparation of wall painting.
Subjects: Artists' preparatory studies, Chinese Mural painting and decoration, Mural painting and decoration, Mural painting and decoration,  Buddhist, Mural painting and decoration, Chinese, Technique, Painting, chinese, Buddhist mural painting and decoration
Places: China, Dunhuang Caves
Time periods: Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960