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Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines

Door Cary Y. LIU e.a.

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#312039-KL12
Titel
Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines
Auteur
LIU, Cary Y. & Michael Nylan & Anthony Barbieri-Low & Naomi Noble Richard (editor)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Princeton Universiry Art Museum
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0300107978
ISBN13
9780300107975
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original yellow cloth, dust jacket, (full page) colour illustrations, 4to.
Samenvatting
The “Wu Family Shrines,” one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythological subjects, these famous carved and engraved reliefs may have been intended to reflect such basic themes as loyalty to the emperor, filial piety, and wifely devotion; centuries later, they vividly bring to life the art, social conditions, and Confucian ideology of the Eastern Han.

This generously illustrated book examines the stone slabs and their rubbings as artifacts with a complex cultural history from the second century to the present, and addresses questions about the traditional identification of the structures as Han dyn... (Lees verder)asty shrines of the Wu family. Written by a team of distinguished scholars in the fields of Chinese art and history, the book includes a novel examination of Han burial items in relation to burial belief, pictorial carvings, and funerary architecture.
Pagina's
617
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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