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Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Wu Hung
Categories: Art
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"Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextual
Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Wu Hung
Categories: Architecture
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Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad artistic movement and contextuali
Imperial Illusions
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Pages: 388
Authors: Kristina Kleutghen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, p
Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 Vols)
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Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient Chin
Beyond Representation
Language: en
Pages: 571
Authors: Wen Fong
Categories: Calligraphy, Chinese
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Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic exp