The Arts of China After 1620 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art),Used

The Arts of China After 1620 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art),Used

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In this volume, William Watson and Chuimei Ho begin with discussions of fine art and painting and progress to an analysis of carving and sculpture, ceramics, glassware, and textiles. The authors demonstrate how, in the age of the Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, the decorative arts rose to prominence in a way quite unlike the western experience. Avoiding misrepresentative categorization, they single out period styles, identify repeated phases of archaism and Buddhist art, and discuss characteristic groups of jade, ivory, ceramics, glassware, and textiles. They consider the importance of the imperial workshops and their role in developing craftsmens skills and encouraging the crossover of techniques from different disciplines, and they direct attention to the compelling influence of Emperor Qianlongs aesthetic innovations.In architecture, the vast plan and overwhelming authority of the imperial buildings is discussed in contrast with the restrained subtlety of domestic architecture and garden design, where magnificent rocks were the principal feature just as in landscape painting. The survey concludes by examining the development of East/West trade and the effects of commercialization on Chinese arts and crafts. This is a handsome, wellillustrated book that will be a valuable and illuminating resource for all who are interested in the arts of China.

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