The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
by Hung, Wu
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 1861896247
- ISBN 13
- 9781861896247
- Seller
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Lisbon, Portugal
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About This Item
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 both observation and interpretation. In the Art of the Yellow Springs, Wu Hung argues that to achieve a genuine understanding of Chinese tombs we need to reconsider a host of art-historical concepts, including visuality, viewership, space, formal analysis, function and context. Profusely illustrated with many outstanding works of art, this ground-breaking new assessment demonstrates the amazing richness of arguably the longest and most persistent art tradition in the history of Chinese culture..
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- Seller
- Jorge Welsh Books (PT)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 675B
- Title
- The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
- Author
- Hung, Wu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1861896247
- ISBN 13
- 9781861896247
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- china,chinese art,tombs china,grave goods china,art objects
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian Art; Chinese Art;
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Jorge Welsh Books
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Lisbon
About Jorge Welsh Books
Jorge Welsh Books has been dealing in art reference books since 1999. What started as a platform for the distribution of publications by Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing has now evolved into an established bookselling division. We focus in our fields of expertise, specifically cross-cultural works of art from Africa, India, China and Japan, with an emphasis on Chinese porcelain. Our aim is to source and deliver relevant publications in the best possible condition to collectors and academics alike, while providing a high-quality, personalised service.
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