Art and Architecture of China

Name: Art and Architecture of China
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ISBN: 9780300053340

ISBN-10: 0300053347

ISBN-13: 9780300053340

Edition: 3rd 1971 (Reprint)

Authors: Laurence Sickman, Alexander C. Soper

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Book details

List price: $32.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1971
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/25/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Note on the Integrated Edition


Foreword to Part One


Foreword to Part Two


Glossary


Chronological Table


Maps


Painting and Sculpture


Introduction


Shang-Yin to Late Chou Sculpture


Middle and Late Chou Dynasty Sculpture


Vestiges of Early Painting


The Han Dynasty


Han Dynasty Sculpture


Han Dynasty Painting


Funerary Stones and Tiles


Beginning of Buddhist Sculpture: Yun-kang


Sculpture during the Wei Dynasty


Sculpture during the Late Sixth Century and Sui Dynasty


Painting during the Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties


Tang Dynasty Sculpture


Tang Dynasty Painting


Yen Li-pen


Buddhist Painting


The Court Painters


Landscape Painting


Sculpture from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century


The Masters of Landscape


Figure Painters


Sung Hui-tsung and the Academy


Birds, Flowers, and Animals


The Academy at Hang-chou


Chan Buddhist Painters


Supernatural and Taoist Themes


Yuan Dynasty Painting


Painters of Bamboo and Plum Flowers


Introduction to Painting of the Ming Dynasty


The Early Painters


The Academy and the Che School


The Wu School


Tung Chi-chang


Landscape Painters of the Ching Dynasty


Individualist Painters of the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries


Architecture


Introduction


From Earliest Times to the Chou Dynasty


The Prehistoric Age and the Shang


The Chou Dynasty


From Chin to the Six Dynasties


Chin, Han, and the Three Kingdoms (221 B.C.-A.D. 265)


The Period of the Six Dynasties (A.D. 265-581)


The Second Imperial Age: Sui and Tang (A.D. 581-907)


General


The Tang Masonry Pagoda


Wood-framed Buildings of Tang Style


The Five Dynasties and Sung (907-1279)


General


Masonry Pagodas


Timber-framed Buildings


The Barbarian Empires: Liao, Chin, and Yuan (907-1367)


General


Pagoda Types


Wooden Halls


Ming and Ching (1368-1912)


Notes to Part One


Notes to Part Two


Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index