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| Author / Contributor: | Thorp, Robert L., |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Abrams, 2001. |
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| Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
Table of Contents:
- Map: China
- Hardstones of the Hongshan and Liangzhu Cultures
- State and Society
- A New Capital: Daxing cheng and Chang'an
- The Imperial Tombs
- Scenes from Court Life
- State Patronage of the Dharma
- Temples and Pagodas
- The "Great Image Niche" at Longmen
- Tang Chapels at Dunhuang
- Buddhist Themes at Dunhuang
- The "Sutra Cave"
- Pottery
- Elite Life and Elite Arts
- Cosmopolitan Life
- Calligraphy
- Secular Themes in Painting
- Beyond the Middle Kingdom
- Boxes
- The Timber-frame System
- Precious Metals
- 7. Technologies and Cultures of the Song
- Measuring Everyday Life
- Yangshao Cultures
- Art Technologies and Economies
- Song Architecture and Urbanism
- Ceramic Production
- Social Coordinates of Style and Taste
- Constructing Landscapes
- Cultures of Art
- Court Cultures
- Women's Culture
- Literary Culture and the Arts
- Art Literature and Discourses
- East Coast Cultures
- Varieties of Poetic Painting
- Buddhist Artistic Culture
- Architecture
- Sculpture
- Song Buddhist Iconographies
- Chan Art
- Boxes
- Urban Life and Culture in Hangzhou
- A Song Court Painter at Work
- Painting Formats and Materials
- The Shandong Longshan Culture
- Training and Examination of Court Artists
- Maps: Northern Song and Liao Empires
- Southern Song and Jin Empires
- 8. Official, Personal, and Urban Arts of the Yuan to Middle Ming
- Art and Official Ideology
- Official Patronage of Religious Art and Architecture
- The Porcelain Industry at Jingdezhen
- Personal Arts of the Educated Elite
- Urban Arts
- Boxes
- Mind in Matter
- The Establishment of the Yuan Capital City of Dadu at Beijing
- Ceramics from a Yuan-dynasty Shipwreck
- 9. Art Systems and Circulations: Late Ming to Middle Qing
- Woodblock Illustration
- Literati Painting and Calligraphy
- Orthodoxy and the Fate of Literati Painting
- Arts of Desire and Memory
- Loyalist Arts of Memory
- Commercial and Domestic Arts
- Residential Architecture
- Images of Animals and Humans
- Hardwood Furniture
- Craft Objects from the Suzhou Region
- Ceramics for Domestic Markets
- Urban Professional Painters
- Court Arts
- Palace Architecture
- Buddhist Arts at Court
- Court-sponsored Crafts
- International Arts
- Export Ceramics
- Boxes
- Other Export Crafts
- European Arts and Artists at the Qing Court
- European Images of China
- Box: The Arts of Living: Leisure, Pleasure, and Material Culture
- Map: Southeast China
- 10. Identity and Community in 19th- and 20th-Century Chinese Art
- Images of the Self
- Sites of Community and Public Spaces
- Post-literati Arts and National-style Painting (Guohua)
- Functional Arts
- Working Hardstones and Jade
- Illustrational and Design Arts
- Popular Arts
- Political Arts
- Images of War, Resistance, and Propaganda
- Political Spaces and Art Institutions
- Satire and Protest
- Transnational Arts and Avant-garde Movements
- The Arts of History
- Box: Ideological Control of the Arts
- Glossary
- Working with Clay
- Bibliography
- Picture Credits
- Index
- Introducting Chinese Art and Culture
- Precursors to Writing?
- 2. The Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou
- The Early State and Society
- Settlements
- The Shang Royal Cult
- The King and the Political Order
- Warfare
- Craft Production for the Elite
- Bronze Ritual Vessels
- Terms of Analysis
- Map: Macroregions of China
- Function
- Typology and Decoration
- Motifs and Meanings
- Beyond Shang and Zhou
- Boxes
- Building with Pounded Earth
- Divination: Communicating with the Ancestors
- Piece-mold Bronze Casting
- Map: Shang and Zhou Sites in Henan and Shaanxi
- 3. The Late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou
- Time Chart
- State and Society
- Zhou Urbanism
- Warfare: "The Great Affair of State"
- Craft Production for the Elite
- Luxury Life-styles
- Personal Attire
- Lacquer
- Jades
- The Bronze Industry
- The Spring and Autumn Period
- 1. Prehistoric Roots: Late Neolithic Cultures
- The Warring States Period
- Ritual and Representation
- Funerary Ritual
- Representational Art
- A Wider View: Peoples of the North and Southwest
- Boxes
- Writing Tools and Scripts
- The "Royal City" Plan
- Making Lacquer Wares
- Map: States of the Warring States Period
- Village Societies
- 4. The First Empires: Qin and Han
- The Imperial State and Society
- Qin Unification
- Structure of the Han Realm
- The Qin and Han Capitals
- Han Society
- Picturing Elite Life
- Court Patronage and Luxury Arts
- Lacquer Wares, Metalwork, and Jade
- Imperial Ideology and World View
- Village Life
- The Emperor
- The Tomb of the First Emperor
- Han Imperial Tombs
- Myths and Portraits
- The Souls and the After-life
- Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Peoples of the Frontiers
- Boxes
- The Myth of the Great Wall
- The Land of Silk
- Map: Xi'an Region
- Death and Burial
- 5. Age of the Dharma: The Period of Division
- State and Society
- Imperial Capitals: The North
- Imperial Tombs: The South
- Elite Tombs: The North
- The Dharma Comes to the Middle Kingdom
- Central Asian and Liang Buddhism
- Northern Wei Patrons
- Court Patronage at Luoyang
- Dunhuang: Early Narratives
- Material Culture: Making Things
- Northern Qi Patrons
- Luxury and Elite Arts
- Stonewares and Glazes
- Calligraphy
- Secular Painting
- Beyond the Middle Kingdom
- Boxes
- Script Types
- "The Six Laws of Xie He"
- 6. A New Imperial State: Sui and Tang