Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves

Constructed over a millennium, from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries CE, near Dunhuang—an ancient border town on the Silk Road in north-west China—the Mogao Caves comprise the world’s largest, most continuously created and best-preserved treasure trove of Buddhist art. Previous overviews of Dunhuang art have traced the caves’ unilinear history. This book examines the caves through the lens of space, treating them as physical and historical sites that can be approached, entered and understood sensually. It prioritises the actual experiences of the people of the past who built and used the caves.

368 pages, English, colour, 18.39 x 3.61 x 25.6 cm

Hardcover

Published in 2023

ISBN‏: ‎0295750200

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