Octopus Books, 1972. — 168 p. The Shang dynasty (1523-1028 BC) The reign of the Chou (1027-256 BC) The Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) The six dynasties (220-590) The brief reign of the Sui (581-618) The T'ang dynasty (618-906) The five dynasties (907-60) The Sung nationalists (960-1279) The Yu an Mongols (1260-1368) The Ming (1368-1644) The Ch'ing (1644-1912)
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 359 p. This extraordinary catalogue accompanies a major traveling exhibition of 128 works of bronze, jade, and clay dating from the thirteenth century B.C. to the second century A.D. The majority of these stunningly sophisticated works of art--among the most unusual and spectacular produced anywhere in the ancient world--all come from a...
C. E. Tuttle Co, 1969. — 236 p. The Study of the art of love in China focusing on the late Ming period, Illustrated throughout with b/w and full colour illustrations.
Studio Publications/Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953. — 392 p. There has been a great need for a wellillustrated and comprehensive text on every phase of Chinese art with complete and up-to-the minute factual knowledge. This is such a book, and it is written by two famous authorities with sympathy, insight, humor, and deep understanding. This partial list of subjects covered will give...
Parkstone International, 2015. — 256 p. This book is an encyclopaedia of Chinese classical art, giving an informative overview of all forms of Chinese art and providing the keys to understanding contemporary art in China. This book is a great way for beginners to better acquaint themselves with China, while specialists will appreciate the global perspective. Dealing not only...
Weatherhill, 1976. — 222 p. — (History of Later Chinese Painting 1). This book is the first in a projected series of five that will make up a history of later Chinese painting. Several of these are already in preparation, and I hope to complete the writing of the whole series over the next five years. The remaining four volumes will be devoted to painting of the Ming and Ch'ing...
Weatherhill, 1978. — 308 p. — (History of Later Chinese Painting 2). This is the second volume in a projected series of five that will make up a history of later Chinese painting. They are planned so that they may be read either in sequence or independently. The first, Hills Beyond a River, was devoted to painting of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), the period of Mongol domination...
Aracne, 2007. — 404 p. Yishu. Manuale di storia dell'arte cinese intende proporre un percorso didattico in grado di fornire una descrizione completa delle tematiche principali dell’archeologia e della storia dell’arte cinese e si rivolge, quindi, a studenti di corsi universitari interessati ad avere una guida breve e aggiornata sull’argomento. Il testo di Caterina propone un...
Skira, 1962. — 294 p. The Chinese Palace Museum's collection of objects of art is unique. Few other ancient civilizations of the world have handed down to posterity the masterpieces of their great artists in a single collection that is comparable in size and value. The formation of this famous court collection may be said to have started from the very beginning of the Southern...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 276 p. — (Oxford History of Art). China boasts a history of art lasting over 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of forms - objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals.But this rich tradition has not, until now been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 300 p. — (Bollingen series 35.61). 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...
Crown Publishers, 1964. — 256 p. In western China, on the great silk road, lies the ancient city of Tun-huang, famous for its great Buddhist shrine, consisting of no fewer than 469 caves carved out of a sandy cliff. Founded in the fourth century A. D., its wealth of wall-paintings and other valuable works of art was produced during successive dynasties—the Sui, the T'ang and...
American Heritage, 1969. — 386 p. A masterpiece of Chinese art speaks to the viewer so directly that all barriers of time and language seem to fall silently away, and it is tempting, indeed fatally easy, to respond to its beauty on our own. Western, terms. A bronze vessel with three gently curving, tapering legs, flared lip, and rounded body crisply incised, reminds one of the...
Batsford, 1946. — 196 p. Chinese Art is a comprehensive introduction to the whole field. Here six of the best-known experts have put their talents at the service of the ordinary reader to present a concise and lucid survey of painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, bronzes, and the minor arts. The magnificent illustrations with which this book is plentifully supplied will...
Spring Books, 1964. — 226 p. Pottery, porcelain, jades, paintings, lacquer, bronzes and furniture—all these facets of the Chinese creative genius are presented in this volume in full colour. When this pictorial survey of the whole field of Chinese art was originally pubhshed, it was immediately recognised as an outstanding contribution to its subject. The introduction by the...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 353 p. — (Bollingen Series 35.68). A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history. Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time―the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties―has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art,...
Stanford University Press, 1995. — 403 p. This pioneering work reinterprets the history of early Chinese art and architecture, focusing on the notion of monumentality and forms of monuments as they evolved from prehistory to the early sixth century. Chinese decorative, pictorial, and architectural forms, often approached as separate traditions, are here explained as a broad...
Reaktion Books, 2010. — 274 p. No other civilization in the premodern 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 labor to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects...
Thames & Hudson, 2021. — 249 p. — (World of Art). Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of Chinas Cultural Revolution, placing it in the context of unprecedented...
Thames & Hudson, 2021. — 216 p. — (World of Art). Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary Chinese art in the last forty years since the end of Chinas Cultural Revolution, placing it in the context of unprecedented...
Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 276 p. Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess. Chinese Bridges brings together a thorough look at the marvels of Chinese bridge design from one of the world's leading experts on Chinese culture and historical geography, Ronald G. Knapp. While many...
Jaca Book, 2016. — 248 p. Mostrare l'arte cinese nel suo contesto spirituale, religioso e politico è l'ambizione del presente volume. A partire da una prospettiva storico-culturale, Christine Kontler descrive l'enorme ricchezza di una civiltà che si è sviluppata nel corso di quattro, cinque millenni in un territorio di dimensioni continentali. Con un mirabile lavoro di sintesi,...
Freer Gallery of Art , 1982. — 207 p. In the remarkably long sweep of Chinese culture — estimated by some contemporary writers to have begun as early as six thousand years ago — the roughly two-and-one-halt century span of the Warring States period might seem hut a brief interlude. Yet, it was m fact a time ot extraordinary change. The Warring States period was an era ot...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 271 p. — (Bollingen series 35.46). Chinese workers in the third century b.c. created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century a.d., Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth...
University of Washington Press, 2021. — 282 p. At sixty-two meters the Leshan Buddha in southwest China is the world's tallest premodern statue. Carved out of a riverside cliff in the eighth century, it has evolved from a religious center to a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular tourist destination. But this Buddha does not stand alone: Sichuan is home to many cave temples...
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 249 p. Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to recreate the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. Longmen, a UNESCO World Heritage site located near the old capital of Luoyang in modern Henan Province, consists of thousands of ancient cave chapels and shrines containing...
Harper & Row Publishers, 1975. — 162 p. A Handbook of Chinese Art is a basic guide. profusely illustrated with hundreds of drawings of art objects and details, for collectors, dealers and students of Chinese art and antiquities. In this book. Margaret Medley, Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. fills the widely felt need for a handy guide to Chinese arts...
Horizon Press, 1965. — 152 p. A Handbook of Chinese Art is a basic guide. profusely illustrated with hundreds of drawings of art objects and details, for collectors, dealers and students of Chinese art and antiquities. In this book. Margaret Medley, Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. fills the widely felt need for a handy guide to Chinese arts and crafts....
University of Hawaii Press, 2004. — 217 p. The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world's largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang's cross-disciplinary exploration of the interrelationship...
Penguin Books, 1988. — 530 p. With almost 4,000 years of artistic evolution--from the Shang Dynasty to the end of the Ch'ing in this century--the Chinese boast a longer span of cultural history than any other race. The abiding influence of tradition is stressed by both authors. Confucian restraint and Taoist escapism, among other religious and philosophical ideals, are...
Schocken Books, 1963. — 294 p. The Chinese on the Art of Painting is an authoritative and indispensable handbook for both the student and the general viewer of Chinese painting. Here is the history and philosophy of Chinese art unfolded in the stated intentions and reflections of the artists themselves. Osvald Siren, the senior authority on the subject, presents the writings of...
Greystone Press, 1960. — 266 p. — (Art of The World). A comprehensive work on the art of China with the emphasis on antiquities. Many color illustrations of sculpture, ceramics and paintings. Includes a bibliography, glossary and index.
University of California Press, 2018. — 353 p. Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated attributions and dating...
University of California, 1967. — 362 p. This book preserves the continuous narrative framework of the authors earlier Introduction to Chinese Art. Only a broadly historical approach, he feels, one which combines vertical continuity down the ages with horizontal wholeness across each period, makes it possible for the reader, perhaps approaching Chinese art for the first time,...
University of California Press, 1961. — 338 p. With every passing year, fresh discoveries make it more difficult to compress the history of Chinese art between the covers of a single manageable book. I am conscious of having left out much that is beautiful and important. This is inevitable. But I have tried to take into account the most significant results of the work of...
University of California Press, 1973. — 260 p. Written in the engaging and lucid style that is Sullivans hallmark, The Arts of China is readily accessible to general readers as well as serious students of art history. Discussing more than three millennia of Chinese artistic endeavor, Sullivan introduces not only artworks, but also the social, political, religious, and...
Viking Press, 1963. — 280 p. Presents the first full-length study of the monumental art of China. The photographs taken for it, dramatic and beautiful in their own right, are particularly valuable for their new view of subjects, many of which have never been reproduced in the West. Photographs and text in close conjunction cover not only the most important Buddhist temples and...
Kodansha International, 1969. — 204 p. This book opens up a treasure-house of Chinese Buddhist art that has been almost entirely inaccessible to the West. The fifth to the ninth centuries saw the highest florescence of Buddhist art in China, and it was in this period that a large number of temples-including the spectacular and monumental cave temples-were constructed throughout...
Kodansha International, 1969. — 204 p. This book opens up a treasure-house of Chinese Buddhist art that has been almost entirely inaccessible to the West. The fifth to the ninth centuries saw the highest florescence of Buddhist art in China, and it was in this period that a large number of temples-including the spectacular and monumental cave temples-were constructed throughout...
Prentice Hall, 2001. — 533 p. An illustrated chronicle of Chinese art from the late Neolithic period through the twentieth century, which discusses artistic reflections of politics, material culture, belief systems, and more, and includes over one hundred color plates, eight maps, and a time line.
Penguin Books, 1974. — 260 p. An approach to Chinese art not wholly bound to the necessities of historical order may, as an introduction, offer readier insights into its general character than the more customary sequential treatment. The present book does not divide the subject by dynasties or by the categories of the fine arts as they are understood in the West. Instead it...
Yale University Press, 1995. — 292 p. This book is the first in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artifacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. The Arts of China to A.D. 900 investigates the beginnings of the traditions on which much of the art rests, moving from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to the era...
Penguin Books, 1958. — 466 p. Chinese Art attempts to relate the traditional artforms of China to the social, political, and technological conditions out of which thev arose. Each artform has a chapter of its own, where it it is discussed in the context of a particular historical epoch during which, for one reason or another, it reached an especially characteristic stage of...
Penguin Books, 1958. — 456 p. Chinese Art attempts to relate the traditional art-forms of China to the social, political, and technological conditions out of which they arose. Each art-form has a chapter of its own, where it is discussed in the context of a particular historical epoch during which, for one reason or another, it reached an especially characteristic stage of...
Yale University Press, 1997. — 424 p. — (The Culture & Civilization of China). From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had the power to enthrall. This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international scholars, is the first...