| Description |
276 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm |
| Series |
Yale University Press Pelican history of art |
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Yale University Press Pelican history of art.
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| Contents |
1. Neolithic Art -- 2. Shang Art -- 3. Bronze in the Xizhou Period: 1027-771 B.C. -- 4. Bronze in the Chunqiu and Zhanguo Periods: 771-476, 475-221 -- 5. Jade -- 6. Lacquer Art -- 7. Inner Asia and the Chinese Borders -- 8. Cultural Unity. The Han Empire -- 9. Iconography under the Western Han -- 10. Draughtsmanship and Painting under the Eastern Han -- 11. Architecture in Retrospect from the Second Century A.D. -- 12. The Period of the Six Dynasties -- 13. The Age of Division: Sculpture of the Northern Wei First Phase -- 14. Yungang Cave-shrine: Northern Wei Second Phase -- 15. Northern Wei Third Phase: A.D. 495-535 -- 16. Monumental Sculpture of the Mid-sixth Century -- 17. Draughtsmanship and Painting of the Six Dynasties in Henan, Hebei and Jiangsu -- 18. Pre-Tang Mural Painting in West China -- 19. Architecture from Han to Tang -- 20. The Buddhist Icon: Tang International Style -- 21. Tang Secular Painting, Figures and Landscape -- 22. Buddhist Sculpture under the Tang |
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23. Tang Non-Buddhist Sculpture and Decorated Objects -- Glossary of Chinese Characters |
| Summary |
This handsome book is the first in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artefacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. The Arts of China to AD 900 investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era of the Tang Dynasty around AD 900 |
| Analysis |
China |
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Visual arts History |
| Notes |
Co-author of vol. 3: Chuimei Ho |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-269) and index |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- History.
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Art, Chinese.
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| LC no. |
94049679 01266985 |
| ISBN |
0300059892 |
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0300073933 |
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