Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextualized as part of a well-defined cultural and political tradition. The book begins with the first comprehensive explanation of "ritual art." This native genre encompasses ceremonial pottery, jades, and bronzes, which, though often small and hidden, manifest a unique sense of the monumental. The author traces the decline of this archaic tradition and the corresponding ...
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Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextualized as part of a well-defined cultural and political tradition. The book begins with the first comprehensive explanation of "ritual art." This native genre encompasses ceremonial pottery, jades, and bronzes, which, though often small and hidden, manifest a unique sense of the monumental. The author traces the decline of this archaic tradition and the corresponding rise of palatial and funerary monuments against the background of China's transition from a network of principalities to a unified political state. He portrays the continual reinvention of the city in China as he analyzes the history of the Western Han capital, Chang'an, and brings to life the individual motives of builder, mourner, and deceased in discussing the unprecedented construction and decoration of mortuary monuments during the Eastern Han. The book concludes by reexamining what is arguably the most important event in Chinese art history: the appearance of individual artists during the post-Han period and their transformation of public monumental art into a private idiom.
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Good + in Very Good- jacket. Ex-Library. Previous library stamp to first and last free endpaper and check-out sleeve pasted to last free endpaper. Crease along fore edge of first two pages; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Red library stamp to all edges, scuff to corner at lower edge, and light sunning to fore edge and top edge of text block. Boards have light scuffing with light rubbing and bumping to corners and ends of spine and small white mark to tail of spine. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean with light shelf wear, rubbing to top corners, and previous library sticker to tail; creasing to edges, corners and ends of spine.
Add this copy of Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture to cart. $359.00, very good condition, Sold by BookHouse On-Line rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Stanford Univ Pr.
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Very Good+ Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Size: 11x1x10; Stanford University Press, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition. Very good+ hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Text and illustrations unmarked and clean, pages bright and crisp. Corners sharp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Unclipped dust jacket has very minor rubbing, now protected in Mylar wraps. An excellent copy, almost near fine. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.
