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Reaktion Books, London, 2010 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 26 x 26 cm; 1.8 kg; 230 pages with 230 illustrations, 83 in colour.; Used book with minor signs of wear. As new. Minor signs of wear on the dust jacket which is now protected with a clearcover.; No other civilisation 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 labour to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images. In art history these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated as "treasures 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 its individual components - has become the focus of…
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- Title Art of the Yellow Springs
- Author Hung Wu
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language ENG
- Publisher Reaktion Books
- Date 2010
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781861896247
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
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The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
by Hung, Wu
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- 9781861896247 / 1861896247
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