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Robert Bagley - Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes (Cornell East Asia) - 9781933947419 - V9781933947419
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Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes (Cornell East Asia)

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Description for Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes (Cornell East Asia) Paperback. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 199 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

Max Loehr (1903–1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted discoveries Chinese archaeologists were about to make. Those discoveries in turn overthrew the theories of Loehr's great rival Bernhard Karlgren (1889–1978), a Swedish sinologue whose apparently scientific use of classification and statistics had long dominated Western studies of the bronzes. Revisiting a controversy that was ended by archaeology before the issues at stake were fully understood, Robert Bagley shows its methodological implications to be profound. Starting with a close reading of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program
Condition
New
Series
Cornell East Asia
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781933947419
SKU
V9781933947419
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Robert Bagley
Robert Bagley is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His recent publications include the chapter on Shang archaeology in the Cambridge History of Ancient China and articles on Chinese bronzes, the origin of the Chinese writing system, and ancient Chinese music theory.

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