The Mortuary Art And Architecture Of Early Imperial China

Author : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791482490

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The Construction of Space in Early China by Mark Edward Lewis Pdf

This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world. The central theme of the book is the way all these forms of ordered space were reshaped by the project of unification and how, at the same time, that unification was constrained and limited by the necessary survival of the units on which it was based. Consequently, as Mark Edward Lewis shows, each level of spatial organization could achieve order and meaning only within an encompassing, superior whole: the body within the household, the household within the lineage and state, the city within the region, and the region within the world empire, while each level still contained within itself the smaller units from which it was formed. The unity that was the empire's highest goal avoided collapse back into the original chaos of nondistinction only by preserving within itself the very divisions on the basis of family or region that it claimed to transcend.

Author : Qingxi Lou
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 7801138228

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The Architectural Art of Ancient China by Qingxi Lou Pdf

Author : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295749884

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Artisans in Early Imperial China by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low Pdf

Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by individuals who contributed greatly to the foundations of early Chinese culture. With Artisans in Early Imperial China, Anthony Barbieri-Low combines historical, epigraphic, and archaeological analysis to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China onto the men and women who made them. Taking readers inside the private workshops, crowded marketplaces, and great palaces, temples, and tombs of early China, Barbieri-Low explores the lives and working conditions of artisans, meticulously documenting their role in early Chinese society and the economy. First published in 2007, winner of top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars, and now back in print, Artisans in Early Imperial China will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, as well as to scholars of comparative social history, labor history, and Asian art history.

Author : Francis Allard,Yan Sun,Kathryn M. Linduff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472579

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Memory and Agency in Ancient China by Francis Allard,Yan Sun,Kathryn M. Linduff Pdf

Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861897183

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Art of the Yellow Springs by Wu Hung Pdf

We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been building some of the world’s most elaborate tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects. It is these objects and the concept of the tomb as a “treasure-trove” that The Art of the Yellow Springs seeks to critique, drawing on recent scholarship to examine memorial sites the way they were meant to be experienced: not as a mere store of individual works, but as a work of art itself. Wu Hung bolsters some of the new trends in Chinese art history that have been challenging the conventional ways of studying funerary art. Examining the interpretative methods themselves that guide the study of memorials, he argues that in order to understand Chinese tombs, one must not necessarily forget the individual works present in them—as the beautiful color plates here will prove—but consider them along with a host of other art-historical concepts. These include notions of visuality, viewership, space, analysis, function, and context. The result is a ground-breaking new assessment that demonstrates the amazing richness of one of the longest-running traditions in the whole of art history.

Author : Michael Loewe,Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521470307

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The Cambridge History of Ancient China by Michael Loewe,Edward L. Shaughnessy Pdf

The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.

Author : Allison R. Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231551748

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Kingly Splendor by Allison R. Miller Pdf

The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE–9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era’s funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as dazzling suits of jade; cavernous, rock-cut mountain tombs; fancifully ornate wall paintings; and armies of miniature terracotta warriors were prepared for the tombs of the elite during this period. Many of the finest objects of the Western Han have been excavated from the tombs of kings, who administered local provinces on behalf of the emperors. Allison R. Miller paints a new picture of elite art production by revealing the contributions of the kings to Western Han artistic culture. She demonstrates that the kings were not mere imitators of the imperial court but rather innovators, employing local materials and workshops and experimenting with new techniques to challenge the artistic hegemony of the imperial house. Tombs and funerary art, Miller contends, functioned as an important vehicle of political expression as kings strove to persuade the population and other elites of their legitimacy. Through case studies of five genres of royal art, Miller argues that the political structure of the early Western Han, with the emperor as one ruler among peers, benefited artistic production and innovation. Kingly Splendor brings together close readings of funerary art and architecture with nuanced analyses of political and institutional dynamics to provide an interdisciplinary revisionist history of the early Western Han.

Author : Xuan Chen
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912178

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Eastern Han (AD 25-220) Tombs in Sichuan by Xuan Chen Pdf

This work explores the many factors underlying the extended popularity of the cliff tomb, a local burial form in the Sichuan Basin in China during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220).

Author : Audrey Spiro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520321083

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Contemplating the Ancients by Audrey Spiro Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Author : George Kuwayama
Publisher : Far Eastern Art
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000029848698

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Ancient Mortuary Traditions of China by George Kuwayama Pdf

Author : Östasiatiska museet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015015799714

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Bulletin by Östasiatiska museet Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber,Paul T. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400842865

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When They Severed Earth from Sky by Elizabeth Wayland Barber,Paul T. Barber Pdf

Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions. Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 9780870998065

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Arts of the Sung and Yüan by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Robert W. Bagley,Jenny F. So,Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 9780870992261

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The Great Bronze Age of China by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Robert W. Bagley,Jenny F. So,Maxwell K. Hearn Pdf

Describes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197262791

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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117 by Anonim Pdf

Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.