Author : Maggie Bickford
Publisher : Arthur Schwartz Sales Company
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 0894670328
玉骨冰魂
Maggie Bickford
Bones Of Jade Soul Of Ice
Bones Of Jade Soul Of Ice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Bones Of Jade Soul Of Ice book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
A Bushel of Pearls
Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü
Author : Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804732523
A Bushel of Pearls by Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü Pdf
This book studies 18th-century Yangchow paintings as artistic products shaped by collective social and cultural experiences, and by constant exchanges between the artists and their audience.
Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture
Sarah Handler
Author : Sarah Handler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520353336
Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture by Sarah Handler Pdf
Chinese classical furniture is esteemed throughout the world for its beauty, functionalism, and influence on contemporary design aesthetics. Sarah Handler's stunningly illustrated volume traces Chinese hardwood furniture from its earliest origins in the Shang dynasty (c. 1500 to c. 1050 B.C.) to the present. She offers a fascinating and poetic view of Chinese furniture as functional sculpture, a fine art alongside the other Chinese arts of calligraphy, architecture, painting, and literature. Handler, a widely respected scholar of Chinese furniture, uses her knowledge of Chinese social, political, and economic history to provide a backdrop for understanding the many nuances of this art form. Drawing on literary and visual evidence from excavated materials, written texts, paintings, prints, and engravings, she discusses how people lived, their notions of hierarchy, and their perceptions of space. Her descriptions of historical developments, such as the shift from mats to chairs, evoke the psychological and sociological ramifications. The invention of a distinctive way to support and contain people and things within the household is one of China's singular contributions, says Handler. With more than three hundred exquisite illustrations, many in color, Handler's comprehensive study reveals "the magical totality of Chinese classical furniture, from its rich surfaces and shrewd proportions down to the austere soul of art that resides in the hardwood interiors." Austere Luminosity recognizes Chinese classical furniture as one of China's premier arts, unique in the furniture traditions of the world.
The Social Life of Inkstones
Dorothy Ko
Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295999197
The Social Life of Inkstones by Dorothy Ko Pdf
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity and the values of wen (culture, literature, civility) in China, Korea, and Japan for more than a millennium. However, for such a ubiquitous object in East Asia, it is virtually unknown in the Western world. Examining imperial workshops in the Forbidden City, the Duan quarries in Guangdong, the commercial workshops in Suzhou, and collectors� homes in Fujian, The Social Life of Inkstones traces inkstones between court and society and shows how collaboration between craftsmen and scholars created a new social order in which the traditional hierarchy of �head over hand� no longer predominated. Dorothy Ko also highlights the craftswoman Gu Erniang, through whose work the artistry of inkstone-making achieved unprecedented refinement between the 1680s and 1730s. The Social Life of Inkstones explores the hidden history and cultural significance of the inkstone and puts the stonecutters and artisans on center stage.
The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally
Natalie Leon
Author : Natalie Leon
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781786787866
The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally by Natalie Leon Pdf
Written by Japanologist Natalie Leon, this beautiful guide unlocks the secrets of Japan's seasonal culture to help you relish the seasons wherever you are. Relish every day with the secrets of Japan’s seasonal culture In traditional Japanese culture, people eat, sleep and wear the seasons, from kimono motifs to petal-shaped sweets, and festivals dedicated to nature’s spectacular displays. This mindful celebration of nature leads to a deep awareness of the seasons, called kisetsukan. This book reveals the hidden depths of kisetsukan, and how its concepts can transform your life. Discover: Shun, eating what is fresh and bountiful. Preserve edible flowers to use in homemade sweets, or taste the spring with “seven herb” porridge. Mottainai, zero-waste living. Learn about boro boro, visible mending that honours the history of a cherished garment, or wrap gifts in sustainable, seasonal fabrics. Kadō, the Way of Flowers. Learn the rules of ikebana and arrange flowers according to the seasons, or throw a cherry blossom-viewing party. Momijigari, the ritual of leaf hunting. Explore local nature with “forest bathing”, or learn simple ways to bring the outside inside. This treasure trove of folktales, recipes and activities is an invitation to celebrate each day, for increased creativity, harmony and happiness.
Cultivated Landscapes
Maxwell K. Hearn
Author : Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Landscape painting, Chinese
ISBN : 9781588390554
Cultivated Landscapes by Maxwell K. Hearn Pdf
This book presents twelve major paintings by masters of the Ming-dynasty (1368-1644), Qing dynasty (1644-1911), and modern periods.
The Pilgrim Art
Robert Finlay
Author : Robert Finlay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520945388
The Pilgrim Art by Robert Finlay Pdf
Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances—from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.
Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire
Lara C.W. Blanchard
Author : Lara C.W. Blanchard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004369399
Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire by Lara C.W. Blanchard Pdf
In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard examines the writing of interiority in paintings of women, considering correspondences to examples of erotic poetry and how such works address the concerns of artists, patrons, and viewers.
Fruitful Sites
Craig Clunas
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780231587
Fruitful Sites by Craig Clunas Pdf
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, Craig Clunas provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life.
The Heart of Ma Yuan
Richard Edwards
Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888028658
The Heart of Ma Yuan by Richard Edwards Pdf
"Ma Yuan emerges as an artist who captures the reality of season, time, and mood in a dazzlingly abbreviated style that is nonetheless utterly convincing in its rendering of the natural world.---Maxwell K. Hearn Metropolitan Museum of Art ichard Edwards and Ma Yuan have something in common: both are deeply committed to the work of art and the medium of ink painting. And like Ma Yuan's brushwork, Edwards's prose couples formal restraint with expressive power. This book is a major contribution to the literature on the art of ink painting at the Southern Song court.---Robert Sharf University of California, Berkeley Ma Yuan, one of China's best-known artists, was a key figure in the period widely celebrated as the golden era of Chinese landscape painting. The Heart of Ma Yuan offers a careful discussion of Ma Yuan's painting as it emerged within the sophisticated artistic environment of Hangzhou in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Beautifully illustrated with more than 300 illustrations from leading museums and private collections around the world, the book includes discussions of Ma Yuan's family of six generations of skillful painters, his many patrons, and his distinctive style in engaging Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist genres and his superb landscapes, including animals, flowers, and detailed studies of water. Widely noted for his own keen eye and masterful stylistic analysis, Richard Edwards cultivates the art of looking for a broad readership, from general art lovers to specialists in art history. As a Western scholar exploring the significance of a highly refined Eastern culture, he draws on natural history, poetry, and relevant contemporary writing as well as the work of other artists.
Women in Early Medieval China
Bret Hinsch
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538117972
Women in Early Medieval China by Bret Hinsch Pdf
This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.
The Arts of China 900–1620
William Watson
Author : William Watson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300073933
The Arts of China 900–1620 by William Watson Pdf
This beautiful book is the second 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. It covers the most prolific and broad-ranging period of Chinese art history, from the Song Dynasty with its spectacular landscape paintings to the Ming Dynasty with its lovely pottery. William Watson considers architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts in equal balance. He follows styles and motifs as they are developed in each medium from one province to another and discusses materials and techniques as well as the iconography and function of every art form. He also explores relationships between one medium and another, tracing, for example, the influence of Buddhist iconography on sculptural traditions and on the architecture of temples and towers and showing how ceramic ornament affected the development of ornament in other media.
Art in China
Craig Clunas
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842072
Art in China by Craig Clunas Pdf
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.
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun
Author : Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300094473
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting by Richard M. Barnhart,Xin Yang,Nie Chongzheng,James Cahill,Hung Wu,Lang Shaojun Pdf
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.
Lichens
Vincent Zonca
Author : Vincent Zonca
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509553464
Lichens by Vincent Zonca Pdf
Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our customary ways of classifying forms of life, and allow us to conceive of an ecology that is no longer based on distinctions between nature and culture, urban and rural, competition and cooperation. The result of several years of investigation carried out on several different continents, this remarkable book offers an original, radical, and, like its subject matter, symbiotic reflection on this common but mostly invisible form of life, blending cultures and disciplines, drawing on biology, ecology, philosophy, literature, poetry, even graphic art. What if lichens were at the heart of some of the most pressing and topical questions of our day? Does the fact that they can live everywhere, even in very harsh environments, that they persist when almost all other traces of life have disappeared, mean that, despite their fragility, lichens are a force of resistance? After reading this book you will never see lichens, or the world, in the same way again.
