Uygur Patronage In Dunhuang: Regional Art Centres On The Northern Silk Road In The Tenth and Eleventh CenturiesThis volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on "Dunhuang" art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that shaped the taste of Uygur patrons. The cultural and political effects of Sino-Uygur political marriages are examined in the larger context of the role of high-ranking women in medieval art patronage. Careful study of the iconography, technique and style sheds new light on important paintings in the collection of the British Museum in London, and the Musee national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, in Paris, and through comparative analysis the importance of regional art centres in medieval China and Central Asia is explored. Richly illustrated with line drawings, as well as colour and black-and-white plates. |
Contents
Towards a definition of Uygur art | 11 |
The origin of the Uygurs | 31 |
The fall of the central powers and the rise of the regional | 51 |
demonstrating | 69 |
a model for the transmission of regional | 104 |
Uygur banners painted in Dunhuang | 111 |
The question of inscriptions | 123 |
How the function of religious art in Dunhuang affected | 134 |
The Five Buddhas of the Vajradhātu Maṇḍala and | 180 |
Comparisons with Uygur Manichaean painting | 189 |
Other paintings with similar donor figures | 197 |
Cultural aspects of Ganzhous links with Tibet | 208 |
the simultaneous regional influence | 215 |
the spread of the Uygur | 221 |
a reassessment of tenthcentury | 227 |
Tables | 235 |
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Amitābha arts asiatiques Guimet Asian Avalokitesvara Berlin Bezeklik Cave bodhisattva British Museum Buddha Buddhist art Casey Singer Cave 17 Central Asia China Chinese chubanshe Colour Plate colours and gold colours on silk composition dated decorated deities DHMGK Dunhuang art Dunhuang Cave Dunhuang paintings eleventh century example female donors Five Buddhas fragments Gabain Ganzhou Uygur Giès gold on silk Guanyin Gulácsi headdress Huihu iconography important Indische Kunst Ink and colours inscription kaghan Kṣitigarbha London Maṇḍala Manichaean Manichaean Art Manichaeism Mañjuśrī Māra Mogao caves Moriyasu mural Musée des arts Museum für Indische Paris Pelliot Qočo Rong Samantabhadra Sérinde Shazhou Shazhou Uygur shown Silk Road Silk Route similar Sogdian Šorčuk Stein painting style Sutra Tang Tangut tenth century tenth-century Dunhuang Tibet Tibetan art Turfan Turfan area Uighur Uygur art Uygur influence wall paintings Wenwu Whitfield Xinjiang Xizhou Xizhou Uygurs Yaldiz