wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
ISBN: 9780824838522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives of the emperors - in Ming dynasty China (1368-1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of China's culture, from which they have been excluded until very recently. Screen of Kings challenges much of the received wisdom about Ming China. Craig Clunas... Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives of the emperors - in Ming dy... |
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305,24 zł |
Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
ISBN: 9780824859015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes "superfluous things"--the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China--and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early mod... |
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428,38 zł |
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
ISBN: 9780691171937 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese... What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and... |
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278,46 zł |
Art in China
ISBN: 9780199217342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. China boasts a history of art stretching over 5,000 years and embracing a vast array of forms--objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals. With more than 130 halftone illustrations, including almost eighty in full color, this new edition of Art in China presents the finest one-volume introduction to all forms of Chinese art. The book examines Chinese art in a variety of contexts--as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created by the men and women of the educated elite,...
China boasts a history of art stretching over 5,000 years and embracing a vast array of forms--objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls...
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112,28 zł |
Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
ISBN: 9780824828202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes "superfluous things"--the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China--and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early mod... |
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137,08 zł |
Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450
ISBN: 9780861592050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450' that accompanied the British Museum's major exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China (September 2014-January 2015). The scope of the exhibition and conference focused on Ming dynasty China in the years 1400 to 1450, a time when China was the largest (and one of the most prosperous) states in the world, ruled by a single family through a network of imperial and regional courts. During this period, many cultural, social and political themes that were to dominate...
This ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated publication is the outcome of the conference 'Ming: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450' that accompanied the ...
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152,62 zł |