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Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 124
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The Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) is known as China's golden age, celebrated for its enlightened government, openness to outside influences, and varied and magnificent works of art. This beautifully-illustrated book brings together in one volume the dynasty's most important artistic accomplishments. A sketch of the era's political and social history is followed by chapters illustrating the development of ceramics, the production of gold and silver, Tang painting and sculpture, and religious and funerary art.
Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
The Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) is known as China's golden age, celebrated for its enlightened government, openness to outside influences, and varied and magnificent works of art. This beautifully-illustrated book brings together in one volume the dynasty's most important artistic accomplishments. A sketch of the era's political and social history is followed by chapters illustrating the development of ceramics, the production of gold and silver, Tang painting and sculpture, and religious and funerary art.
Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 9780761802013 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 374
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This text deals with Chinese art during the Tang Dynasty, from 618 to 907. It presents the artistic findings from the last ten years of archaeological excavation in China--findings that have never before been published in the West. Court Art of the Tang reveals the magnificence of Tang art through the presentation of ceramics, wall paintings, and utensils made of gold, silver, bronze, and porcelain. The book aims to place these new materials in their artistic and historical context. It structures the new findings in chronological order, using culture and history as a background. The study treats each class of art separately and distinctly, exploring the aesthetic evolution of both secular and religious art. Relevant literary expressions incorporated into the discussions make Court Art of the Tang an especially unique work. The book gives readers a comprehensive and diverse look at the glorious and extraordinary achievements of a ruling family. The book consists of 233 pages of text, a bibliography and an index, a glossary, and 117 illustrations. Court Art of the Tang will provide insightful reading for art collectors and museum-goers and serve as an important text in Asian Studies Departments and in courses in the arts of China.Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Ackowledgements; Introduction; Early Tang 618-712; Middle Tang 712-805; Late Tang 805-907; Conclusion; Illustrations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Author: Eugene Yuejin Wang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 224
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The capital of Tang China (618 - 907), Chang'an (present day Xi'an), was a hub for economic and cultural exchange. Nearby lies the Famen Temple, one of the most revered Buddhist sites in China. A finger bone relic of the Buddha and magnificent Tang dynasty objects of gold, silver, ceramics, and glass were sealed within an underground crypt there. For more than 1000 years, these treasures were forgotten until their chance discovery in 1987. Together with objects from other leading museums in Shaanxi, the exhibition covered by this text is a rare showcase of Tang aesthetics and culture for the first time in Southeast Asia. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum of treasures from the Famen Temple crypt and other Tang dynasty artworks. Essays examine relic worship at the Famen Temple and the Buddhist world of the Tang, the rationale for the arrangement of donations in the crypt chambers, and the Tang dynasties contacts with the wider world. Figures and murals from tombs, magnificent reliquary boxes, rare ceramics, and gold and silver metalwork tell the story of life and culture during the Tang.
Author: BuYun Chen Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295745312 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
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Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style
Author: Xuan Zhang Publisher: Royal Collection of Imperi ISBN: 9781487801601 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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Handscroll;Light color on silk; 100cm(width)*22cm(height) Depicting a scene from the Tianbao period, this image shows the Tang Emperor Xuanzong's favored concubine Yang Yuhuan's sister, Lady of Guo State, and her attendants on a spring outing. The people and horses have little momentum, and it seems they are riding slowly. The details are realistic, and the brushstrokes are impressive. The horses' liveries and saddles and the people's clothes are all typical fashions of the golden age of the Tang Dynasty, depicting the life of leisure enjoyed by upper class women of that time.
Author: Fang Zhou Publisher: Royal Collection of Imperi ISBN: 9781487801656 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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Handscroll;Ink and color on silk;101cm(width)*22cm(height) This painting depicts court ladies in a quiet and spacious garden, living a playful, extravagant life. It is a magnificent Tang Dynasty Palace scroll painting. The women's full and round forms are decked out in a variety of costumes, with their hair in buns perched high on their heads, adorned with fresh flowers. Their movements are leisurely. They flap butterflies, play with dogs, admire cranes, or simply sit idly. Their maids follow them with fans.
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Une référence inestimable pour tout amateur d'art, de culture ou d'histoire chinoise. Il est unique en ce qu'il traite presque exclusivement des produits de poterie de la célèbre famille de fours Changsha dans la province du Hunan pendant la dynastie Tang (AD 618-907). En plus de rendre hommage aux marchandises civiles « modestes » qui ont soutenu de manière si vitale le cadre d'une civilisation, le livre comprend également des informations sur la culture de la poterie de base, le contexte historique, la poésie, la calligraphie, l'ornementation et la décoration des articles en céramique.
Author: Marc S. Abramson Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812201019 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
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Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a population that included Turks, Tibetans, Japanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Persians, and Arabs. Marc S. Abramson's rich portrait of this complex, multiethnic empire draws on political writings, religious texts, and other cultural artifacts, as well as comparative examples from other empires and frontiers. Abramson argues that various constituencies, ranging from Confucian elites to Buddhist monks to "barbarian" generals, sought to define ethnic boundaries for various reasons but often in part out of discomfort with the ambiguity of their own ethnic and cultural identity. The Tang court, meanwhile, alternately sought to absorb some alien populations to preserve the empire's integrity while seeking to preserve the ethnic distinctiveness of other groups whose particular skills it valued. Abramson demonstrates how the Tang era marked a key shift in definitions of China and the Chinese people, a shift that ultimately laid the foundation for the emergence of the modern Chinese nation. Ethnic Identity in Tang China sheds new light on one of the most important periods in Chinese history. It also offers broader insights on East Asian and Inner Asian history, the history of ethnicity, and the comparative history of frontiers and empires.
Author: Craig Clunas Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780192842077 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 260
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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: Yin Cao Publisher: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 9781741741223 Category : Art objects, Chinese Languages : en Pages : 0
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Introduction / Cao Yin -- The international world of the Tang dynasty / Jessica Rawson -- The Dunhuang Buddhist cave-temples / Edmund Capon -- Chang'an: cosmopolitan capital of the world / Cao Yin -- Famen Monastery / Cao Yin -- Western market and eastern market / Cao Yin -- The elegance of Tang women / Qi Dongfang -- Bringing peace to Chang'an's deceased / Zhang Jianlin.
Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Author: Eugene Yuejin Wang
Author: BuYun Chen
Author: Xuan Zhang
Author: Fang Zhou
Author: Timothy See-Yiu Lam
Author: Marc S. Abramson
Author: Craig Clunas
Author: Yin Cao