Black tigers : a grammar of Chinese rubbings / Kenneth Starr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starr, Kenneth, author.

Series:

China Program book.

A China Program book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubbing--China.

Rubbing.

China.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2008.

Summary:

"In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship." "Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing."--Jacket

Contents:

The history and functions of rubbings 00 Orchid root and rhinoceros-tail hair

The gentle art

Gentler still

Variations on the theme

When the work is done

The rice and the chaff.

Notes:

"A China program book."

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295997896

0295997893

OCLC:

1012883531