Vincent, Irene Vongehr.

The sacred oasis; caves of the thousand Buddhas, Tun Huang. With a pref. by Pearl Buck.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, [1953]

xix, 114 pages illustrations (1 color), folded map 25 cm

The thousand Buddha caves of Kansu, often called the Tun Huang Caves after the nearest oasis city, form a fabulous gallery of Chinese art. The first cave chapel was, according to tradition, excavated there in the fourth century A.D. For 1,000 years there was more or less continuous excavating and painting. Restoration and redecoration were carried on until quite recent times. Traces the artistic influences--Indian, Persian, Greco-Roman, and Central Asian--which, abssorbed and transformed by the Chinese, formed the sculptures and wall-paintins of the caves.

Mural painting and decoration.
Decoration and ornament China Gansu Sheng.
Buddhist art.
Décoration et ornement Chine Gansu.
Art bouddhique.
Decoration and ornament.
Grotten.
Boeddhistische kunst.
Mural painting and decoration, Chinese Dunhuang Caves.
Buddhist cave temples China Dunhuang.
Buddhist art China Dunhuang Caves.
Dunhuang (China)
China Dunhuang.
China Gansu Sheng.
Dunhuang.
Dunhuang Caves (China)

Location: Library main 247776
Call No.: BIB 177319
Status: Available