Art in China / Craig Clunas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780199217342
- ISBN: 0199217343
- Physical Description: 276 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previous edition: 1997. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index. Includes web resources. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Art in the tomb. Neolithic to Bronze Age: 2500-200 BCE -- The first empires: 221 BCE- 220 CE -- North and South: 220 CE -- 589 CE -- Tomb sculpture: 400- 650 CE -- Art at court. Tang to early Song: 618-960 CE -- Northern Song court art: 960-1127 CE -- Southern Song court art: 1127-1279 CE -- Yuan court art: 1279-1368 CE -- Ming court art: 1368-1644 CE -- Early Qing court art: 1644-c.1735 CE -- The Qinglong reign: 1736-1795 CE -- Late Qing court art: 1796-1911 CE -- Art in the temple. Early Buddhist art -- Buddhist art: c.450-c.580 -- Religious art of the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-906) dynasties -- Religious art of the Northern Song Dynasty: 960-1127 -- Southern Song religious art: 1127-1279 -- Buddhist monks and the Élite in the southern Song -- Buddhist art in the Yuan dynasty: 1279-1368 -- Religious painting of the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries -- Religious art of the Ming dynasty: 1368-1644 -- Religious art of the Qing dynasty:1644-1911 -- Art in the life of the élite. Calligraphy as an élite art -- Art and theory in the northern Song -- The southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) -- The Ming dynasty: 1368-1644 -- The art and theory of the Dong Qichang: 1555-1636 -- The seventeenth century and the Ming-Qing transition -- The Qing dynasty: 1644-1911 -- The nineteenth century -- Art in the market place. The Song and the Yuan dynasties: 960-1368 -- The Ming dynasty (1368-1644): painting -- The Ming dynasty (1368-1644): printing -- The Ming dynasty (1368-1644): textiles and crafts -- The amateur/professional problem in late Ming painting -- The Qing dynasty: 1644-1911 -- Prints and perspective -- Shanghai in the nineteenth century -- The republic of China -- Art in the people's Republic of China -- Art in China since the 1970s. |
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Subject: | Art, Chinese. Art, Chinese. Art, Chinese. Kinesisk konst. Kunst. China. |
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CHOICE_Magazine Review
Art in China
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Measured against the heavy freight of hype employed in its marketing, this book does not fare very well. Taken at face value and considered on its own terms, however, it presents an engaging, if slight, survey of art in China up to and including the present era. The coverage is restricted to surviving artifacts, carefully selected, many of which are not normally illustrated in general books of this type. Five categories organize the discussion: funerary art; the art of the elite groups, courtly, religious and scholarly; and art as commodity. The chronologies run parallel and intermingle, and so do the historicocultural contexts, as they are lightly defined. The adapted encyclopedia format restricts analysis and detailed discussion of historical evidence, but it does not diminish the author's sparkling insights, sprinkled liberally throughout the text. Fine color illustrations extend the impact of the discourse, as do the "windows" of text that deal with highly specific information. Most useful is the bibliographical essay, with assessments and guidance by the author and an extensive comparative chronological chart, which reintegrates graphically what the discourse breaks down into categories. Not as substantial as Wen C. Fong and James C.Y. Watt's Possessing the Past (CH, Jan'97), nor as lively as Maxwell K. Hearn's Splendors of Imperial China (CH, Nov'96), nevertheless, a useful guide for general readers. D. K. Dohanian University of Rochester
Library Journal Review
Art in China
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These two current overviews of Chinese art take very different approaches. Keeper of the Department of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Tregear offers a chronologically organized work that covers its topic in brief survey form, using representative examples of bronzes, painting, laquerware, ceramics, jade, and stone carving. The book is so brief and the sweep is so broad that a reader not already familiar with the general outline of Chinese history and common Chinese terms may have trouble forming a coherent picture, particularly in regard to the earliest centuries covered. Significantly, Tregear leaves out the important find of a cache of figures at Shanxingdui in 1986, which has been of enormous importance in broadening the known range of cultures in ancient China. On the other hand, she provides an excellent section on 20th-century Chinese art, an area neglected by many of the standard histories. Clunas's (history of art, Univ. of Sussex) approach, by contrast, involves a more critical, theoretical inquiry into Western notions of Chinese art. He eschews a chronological arrangement in favor of thematic chapters on art at court, in the tomb, in the temple, in the life of the elite, and in the marketplace. He makes a point of including objects that have been considered masterpieces intermixed with other less well-known works. He is concerned throughout his text with issues of the historical place of art in Chinese society and with how that society evaluated various objects. The finds at Shanxingdui are mentioned, and some attention is paid to 20th-century work, though not as much in Tregear's survey. Both of these titles have merits as overviews of Chinese art and both could be used by students as well as interested lay readers. If your library can afford only one work, Clunas's is the more up-to-date, both in approach to its material and in selection of works to discuss.ÂKathryn Wekselman, Univ. of Cincinnati Lib., Ohio (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
BookList Review
Art in China
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The Oxford University Press has long published works that combine scholarliness with accessibility. The Oxford History of Art series exemplifies their signature style with the added value of gorgeous reproductions. The series promises to be a grand and inclusive series of truly global dimensions. Each of the inaugural five volumes presents sumptuous reproductions and dynamic syntheses of artistic and historical themes. The authors offer fresh and stimulating theories of how art has defined and challenged national and regional identities and mirrored or questioned officially sanctioned gender roles and class divisions. In the three volumes about art in Europe and China, the authors, art historians with impeccable credentials and engaging prose styles, carefully resurrect neglected or forgotten artists; trace important artist-mentor relationships; reveal the nexus between art, religion, and politics; explore the connections between fine and decorative arts; and track the symbiotic evolution of art and technology, a theme found front and center stage in the series' excellent volumes on photography and twentieth-century design. With nearly 50 projected titles, the Oxford History of Art will become a mainstay in art history collections. --Donna Seaman