Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture - Couverture souple

Hung, Wu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804726264 ISBN 13 : 9780804726269

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This pioneering work reinterprets the history of early Chinese art and architecture, focusing on the notion of monumentality and forms of monuments as they evolved from prehistory to the early sixth century. Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextualised as part of a well-defined cultural and political tradition. The book begins with a comprehensive explanation of 'ritual art'. The author then 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 concludes by reexamining the appearance of individual artists during the post-Han period and their transformation of public monumental art into a private idiom. This work contributes substantially to our understanding of how art and architecture evolved and functioned in a changing society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804726264
• ISBN 13: 9780804726269
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible