Chinese Art and Culture

Type

Book

Authors

Robert L. Thorp

Richard Ellis Vinograd

ISBN 10

0130889695

ISBN 13

9780130889690

Tags

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions, Individual Architects & Firms, Criticism, Art, Architecture

Description

This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts—archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art—from elite to popular. An emphasis on the dynamic processes that effect the history of Chinese art: social, economic, political competition, urbanization, markets and tastes, and quests for cultural authority, allows specific works of art to be discussed in extensive detail, while setting them within larger explanatory stories. A guide to Chinese art for individuals interested in one of the most abundantly artistic cultures in the history of the world. - from Amzon

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