Monumentality in early Chinese art and architecture / Wu Hung.

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Wu Hung, 1945-

Title & Author:

Monumentality in early Chinese art and architecture / Wu Hung.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.

Description:

xviii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 x 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.
Introduction: The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality -- 1. The Age of Ritual Art -- 2. Temple, Palace, and Tomb -- 3. The Monumental City Chang'an -- 4. Four Voices of Funerary Monuments -- 5. The Transparent Stone: The End of an Era.

Summary:

Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextualized as part of a well-defined cultural and political tradition. The book begins with the first comprehensive explanation of "ritual art." This native genre encompasses ceremonial pottery, jades, and bronzes, which, though often small and hidden, manifest a unique sense of the monumental.
The author traces the decline of this archaic tradition and the corresponding rise of palatial and funerary monuments against the background of China's transition from a network of principalities to a unified political state.
He portrays the continual reinvention of the city in China as he analyzes the history of the Western Han capital, Chang'an, and brings to life the individual motives of builder, mourner, and deceased in discussing the unprecedented construction and decoration of mortuary monuments during the Eastern Han.
The book concludes by reexamining what is arguably the most important event in Chinese art history: the appearance of individual artists during the post-Han period and their transformation of public monumental art into a private idiom.

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ISBN:

0804724288 (cloth)
9780804724289 (cloth)
0804726264 (pbk.)
9780804726269 (pbk.)

Subject:

Public art China.
Art and state China.
Symbolism in art.
Art, Chinese To 221 B.C.
Art, Chinese Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
Art, Chinese Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618.
Art Politique gouvernementale Chine.
Symbolisme dans l'art.
Art chinois Jusqu'à 221 av. J.-C.
Art chinois 221 av. J.-C.-220 (Dynasties des Qin et des Han)
Art chinois 220-618 (Trois Royaumes-Dynastie des Sui)
Art, Chinese Qin-Han dynasties.
Art and state.
Art, Chinese.
Art, Chinese Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty.
Public art.
Monumentalkunst
Kunst
Symbolismus
Monumentale kunst.
Public art China History.
Art and state China History.
Symbolism in art China.
Art, Chinese Three Kingdoms-Sui dynasty,220-618.
China.
Geschichte 5000 v. Chr.-589

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122477
Call No.: ID NA7343.2.W8; ID:95-B2519
Status: Available

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