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Category : Art
Languages : de
Pages : 610
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Ostasiatische Zeitschrift
Author: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift
Author: The Grand Documentation
Author: Eduard KögelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110401347
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys. His six major publications leading up to 1931, described here alongside the reactions they caused, were milestones on the path to formal study of Chinese architectural history, long before Chinese academics themselves began to take interest in the subject in the 1930s.
Exploring India's Sacred Art
Author: Stella KramrischPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120812086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Far East
Author: Emil HannoverPublisher:
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Qing Colonial Enterprise
Author: Laura HostetlerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226354217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge that was simultaneously transforming Europe—and its colonial empires—at the time. Although mapping in China is almost as old as Chinese civilization itself, the Qing insistence on accurate, to-scale maps of their territory was a new response to the difficulties of administering a vast and growing empire. Likewise, direct observation became increasingly important to Qing ethnographic writings, such as the illustrated manuscripts known as "Miao albums" (from which twenty color paintings are reproduced in this book). These were intended to educate Qing officials about various non-Han peoples so that they could govern these groups more effectively.Hostetler's groundbreaking account will interest anyone studying the history of the early modern period and colonialism.
The Gods of Northern Buddhism
Author: Alice GettyPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486255750
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Invaluable reference covers names, attributes, symbolism, representations of deities in Mahayana pantheon of China, Japan, Tibet, etc. 185 illus.
The Dynasty Arts of the Kushans
Author: John M. RosenfieldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Language in Time and Space
Author: Brigitte L.M. BauerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110897725
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.
Indian Sculpture
Author: Stella KramrischPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120836146
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Anyone with an understanding of art in general and a knowledge, however slight, of Indian things, will, on being shown a work of Indian sculpture, unfailingly label it Indian. Differences in age and origin, however clearly marked to the discerning eye, when pointed out to the outsider, will be apprehended only with more or less difficulty. There is something so strong, and at the same time unique, in any Indian work of art that its 'Indianness' is felt first of all, and what it is, is seen only on second thought. How this Indianness is expressed in terms of the relationship between line, surface, volume and other elements of visualisation is dealt with in this book. There are permanent qualities throughout the fabric of Indian sculpture which are discussed in detail. These essential qualities, all interrelated and inseparable, contain within their compass the life of Indian plastic art. The book surveys the structure of Indian sculpture in its relevant aspects. The underlying and essential qualities are viewed in their permanency throughout the special conditions that the single monuments imply. Their outward connections, geographical and chronological, are seen to resolve themselves into ethical problems and those of the artistic process itself. While stylistic investigations are the basis of this book, Indian sculpture is dealt with as conditioned by the Indian craftsman. His consciousness makes him known to himself as a part of nature and his work in the form of this 'naturalism'. Its degree and aspects vary according to the levels of his consciousness.