Chinese Art and Culture (Trade Version)
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Robert L. Thorp, Richard Ellis VinogradProduct Details
ISBN: 9780131833647Publish Date: 04/02/2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of pages: 352
Description
This book takes a look at Chinese art within a variety of contexts?€”archeological, cultural, historical, social, and ritual/religious. Organized both chronologically and thematically, it covers a full historical span and includes a wide range of media settings for art?€”from elite to popular. An emphasis on the dynamic processes that effect the history of Chinese art: social, economic, political competition, urbanization, markets and tastes, and quests for cultural authority, allows specific works of art to be discussed in extensive detail, while setting them within larger explanatory stories. A guide to Chinese art for individuals interested in one of the most abundantly artistic cultures in the history of the world.
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