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

• Autore: Wu Hung <1945->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Reaktion Books, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 736/.50951
• Soggetto topico: Tombs - China - History; Sepulchral monuments - China - History; Grave goods - China - History; Architecture, Chinese; Art, Chinese; Cosmology, Chinese
• Soggetto geografico: China Antiquities
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The art of the Yellow Springs
• ISBN: 1-280-49357-7; 9786613588807; 1-86189-718-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810024803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II