The art of the Yellow Springs : understanding Chinese tombs / Wu Hung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu Hung, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tombs--China--History.

Tombs.

Sepulchral monuments--China--History.

Sepulchral monuments.

Grave goods--China--History.

Grave goods.

Architecture, Chinese.

Art, Chinese.

Cosmology, Chinese.

China--Antiquities.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labour to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images.In art history these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated as 'treasure troves' of exciting and often previously unknown works of art. New trends in Chinese art history are challenging this way of studying funerary art: now a

Contents:

The Art of the Yellow Springs Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Spatiality; From Casket Grave to Chamber Grave; A Tripartite Universe; Representing the Soul; 2. Materiality; Spirit Articles; Tomb Figurines and the Medium of Representation; The Body: Preservation and Transformation; 3. Temporality; Cosmic/Mythic Time; 'Lived Objects'; Historical Narratives; Journey; Coda: Portraying Chinese Tombs; References; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9786613588807

9781280493577

1280493577

9781861897183

1861897189

OCLC:

767502743