Dunhuang Art - A Photographic Collection by Wu Jian

Author: Wu Jian
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: Introduction to the Silk Road, which was the most important transportation route on the ancient Eurasian continent. The historical and cultural system is self-contained, influencing the profound Indian, Greek, Islamic, and Chinese cultures. It gathers the Dunhuang and Xinjiang regions, with the most representative being the Dunhuang cave art. It spans a millennium, with rich content and a vast number, achieving artistic excellence that inherits the artistic traditions of the Han and Jin dynasties while absorbing the styles of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Tang and Song dynasties. It also blends the artistic styles of India, Central Asia, and West Asia, recording the historical styles of artistic exchange between China and the Western Regions. It serves as a link for studying the history of Chinese Buddhist art and world art history. "Arts of Dunhuang" presents the reader with a direct exhibition through photographs from a photographic perspective.