The Artisans

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Is there an autonomous republic of art that transcends time and place?Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting Three Uighur Princes from one of t he Bezeklik Caves along the Northern Silk Road, in what is now the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. This most renowned donor portrait of Uighur-Buddhist art was brought to the Berlin museums following the Second German Turfan Expedition (1904–5). Thien responds to its vibrant colors 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. Paperback | 48 pages | 4.32" x 6.69" Show more