Author: Katheryn M. LinduffPublisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Tradition, Phase, and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels
Author: Katheryn M. LinduffPublisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Understanding Ancient Chinese Bronzes
Author: Christian DeydierPublisher:
ISBN: 9782955416006
Category : Bronzes, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Sources of Shang History
Author: David N. KeightleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520054554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Illustrated Dictionary Of Symbols In Eastern And Western Art
Author: James HallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429968485
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail explores the language of symbols in art showing how paintings, drawings and sculpture express man shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious aspirations. The book explains and interprets symbols from many cultures, and over 600 illustrations clarify and complement the text. There are numbered references throughout the text to the sacred Iitcra-1 ture, myths and legends in which the symbols had their origins. Details of English translations of the works are in the bibliography. The book includes an appendix of the transcription of Chinese, notes and references, bibliography, chronological tables and index."
Social Memory and State Formation in Early China
Author: Min LiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107141451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.
Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M Sackler Collections
Author: Robert W. BagleyPublisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN: 9780810944657
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The bronze ritual vessel, the defining artifact of early Chinese civilization, is the subject of this monumental study of Shang ritual bronzes in the Arthur M. SAckler Collections. A Comprehensive introduction, the most thorough treatment of Shang bronzes in any language, lays the foundation for 104 catalogue entries, many of which explore in greater detail specific problems in casting technology, epigraphy, vessel typology, and provincial bronze styles. COlor plates of all the Sackler bronzes are supplemented by rubbings, details, and more than 500 comparative illustrations.THroughout the book the author has made systematic use of the astonishing archaeological discoveries of the last 15 years, discoveries which include major finds of pre-Anyang bronzes and the unprecedented excavation in 1976 of an intact Shang royal tomb. NO less revealing, however, are technical studies of Chinese bronzes carried out in the West, including studies of the bronzes catalogued here, for Dr. BAgley shows technical factors to have played a crucial role in the development of the Shang artistic tradition. BY giving special attention to the formative stages of the Shang bronze industry, he is able to trace in precise detail the complex interaction of technique and design which led from modest beginnings at Erlitou to the spectacular bronzes of the Anyang period (c.1300-1030 BC). IN the spirit of Jean Bony's remark that "each moment has its right to be considered ultimate," pre-Anyang bronzes are treated not as stepping stones to the more familiar bronzes of Anyang times but as objects deserving attention in their own right. NEvertheless Anyang bronzes become at once less familiar and more intelligible when viewed in a developmental perspective, and the strict historical approach taken here calls into question current interpretations of their decoration. TEn years in the making, this book will be of interest not only to students of Chinese archaeology but also to historians of technology, to art historians interested in the process of artistic invention, and to archaeologists concerned with the comparative study of ancient civilizations.
古代中国
Author: Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China
Author: Max LoehrThe Great Bronze Age of China
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992260
Category : Bronze age
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Describes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.
ART MYTH AND RITUAL P
Author: Kwang-chih CHANGPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
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.