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Thien

The Artisans

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8,00 €

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Fachbuch

Buch. Softcover

2025

48 S.

In englischer Sprache

diaphanes. ISBN 978-3-0358-0794-3

Format (B x L): 11 x 17 cm

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Objekte widersprechen - Objects Talk Back

Produktbeschreibung

Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting Three Uyghur Princes from one of the Bezeklik Caves along the Northern Silk Road, in what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. This most renowned donor portrait of Uyghur-Buddhist art was brought to the Berlin museums following the Second German Turfan Expedition (1904–5). Thien responds to its vibrant colours and expressive lines with a literary 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?