China, 5000 years : innovation and transformation in the arts / selected by Sherman Lee.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Physical Description: | 503 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 34 cm |
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China, five thousand years. |
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Contents:
- Some elements in the intellectual and religious context of Chinese art / Patricia Ebrey
- Five thousand years of Chinese culture / Yu Weichao
- Jade as material and epoch / Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
- Ritual bronzes : epitome of ancient Chinese civilization / Ma Chengyuan
- Innovation in ancient Chinese metalwork / Jenny So
- So fine a luster : Chinese lacquerwares / Michael Knight
- Art of silk and art on silk in China / Zhao Feng
- Realities of life after death : constructing a posthumous world in funerary art / Wu Hung
- The development of Chinese ceramics : a brief survey / Wang Qingzheng
- Ceramics in China : making treasures from earth / Regina Krahl
- Origins and trends in the depiction of human figures in China of the fifth and sixth centuries / Su Bai
- Transfiguring divinities : Buddhist sculpture in China / Helmut Brinker
- Calligraphy / Peter Sturman
- Calligraphy and painting : the essence of a civilization / Liu Jiu'an
- Chinese painting : innovation after "progress" ends / James Cahill.