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The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
Wu Hung
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Description for The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
Paperback. A significant, ground-breaking reassessment of ancient Chinese tombs, which were filled with exquisite art objects and images, now available in paperback. The Art of the Yellow Springs looks at the implications presented by an entire burial site, rather than the individual works of art contained within them. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 illustrations, 40 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 191 x 250 x 16. Weight in Grams: 872.
No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labor to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images. In art history these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated as 'treasure troves' of exciting and often previously unknown works of art. New trends in Chinese art history are challenging this way of studying funerary art: now an entire memorial site--rather than any of ... Read more
No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labor to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images. In art history these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated as 'treasure troves' of exciting and often previously unknown works of art. New trends in Chinese art history are challenging this way of studying funerary art: now an entire memorial site--rather than any of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861897817
SKU
V9781861897817
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About Wu Hung
Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago. He is the author of many books including A Story of Ruins (Reaktion, 2011).
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