Ancient Chinese Art
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870994832
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870994832
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 9780760780558
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Author : Dale Anderson
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410905192
Learn about the ancient Chinese by examining the art they created. This title examines what their art reveals about their history and simultaneously how history explains the art. It explores the Chinese civilization through both the images it produced and cultural artifacts that remain. The title focuses on how art and architecture from a distinct period reflect life at the time, and how we can use the surviving art to understand how people used to live.
Author : Kwang-chih CHANG
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674029402
A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
Author : Stephen Little
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520227859
A celebration of Taoist art traces the influence of philosophy on the visual arts in China.
Author : Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300094477
Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.
Author : Colin Mackenzie
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714865751
The Chinese Art Book is a beautifully packaged, authoritative, and unprecedented overview of Chinese art from its earliest dynasties to the contemporary generation of artists enlivening today's art world. 300 works represent every form of Chinese visual art, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, figurines, jade, bronze, gold and silver, photography, video, installation, and performance art. Full of surprises for readers of all levels, The Chinese Art Book breaks new ground by pairing works that speak to one another in unexpected ways, enlightening historical, stylistic and cultural connections. Concise descriptive essays place each work in context, while cross-references lead the reader on a fascinating journey through Chinese art history. The Chinese Art Book features an introductory essay by Colin Mackenzie, Senior Curator of Chinese Art at the Nelson-Akins Museum of Art, along with an accessible summary of Chinese political and cultural history, a comprehensive glossary defining technical terms, and an illustrated timeline.
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192842077
China can boast a history of art lasting 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of images and objects - jade tablets, painted silk handscrolls and fans, ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculptures, and calligraphy. They range in scale from the vast 'terracotta army' with its 7,000or so life-size figures, to the exquisitely delicate writing of fourth-century masters such as Wang Xizhin and his teacher, 'Lady Wei'. But this rich tradition has not, until now, been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused their attention on sculpture, downplaying art more highlyprized by the Chinese themselves such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrough in the study of the subject. Drawing on recent innovative scholarship and on newly-accessible studies in China itself Craig Clunas surveys the full spectrum of the visual arts in China. He ranges from the Neolithic period to the art scene of the 1980s and 1990s,examining art in a variety of contexts as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created for the men and women of the educated ilite, and bought and sold in the marketplace. Many of the objects illustrated in this book have previously been known only to a fewspecialists, and will be totally new to a general audience.
Author : American Woman's Club, Shanghai, China
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN :
Author : James C. Y. Watt
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN :