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Author / Creator: Thorp, Robert L., 1946-
Other Authors / Creators:Vinograd, Richard Ellis.
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Imprint: New York : Abrams, 2001.
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Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
Table des matières:
  • Map: China
  • Introducting Chinese Art and Culture
  • Map: Macroregions of China
  • Time Chart
  • 1. Prehistoric Roots: Late Neolithic Cultures
  • Village Societies
  • Village Life
  • Death and Burial
  • Material Culture: Making Things
  • Hardstones of the Hongshan and Liangzhu Cultures
  • Pottery
  • Yangshao Cultures
  • East Coast Cultures
  • The Shandong Longshan Culture
  • Mind in Matter
  • Images of Animals and Humans
  • Boxes
  • Working Hardstones and Jade
  • Working with Clay
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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"
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Picture Credits
  • Index