| Description |
503 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 34 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Some elements in the intellectual and religious context of Chinese art / Patricia Ebrey -- Five thousand years of Chinese culture / Yu Weichao -- Jade as material and epoch / Elizabeth Childs-Johnson -- Ritual bronzes : epitome of ancient Chinese civilization / Ma Chengyuan -- Innovation in ancient Chinese metalwork / Jenny So -- So fine a luster : Chinese lacquerwares / Michael Knight -- Art of silk and art on silk in China / Zhao Feng -- Realities of life after death : constructing a posthumous world in funerary art / Wu Hung -- The development of Chinese ceramics : a brief survey / Wang Qingzheng -- Ceramics in China : making treasures from earth / Regina Krahl -- Origins and trends in the depiction of human figures in China of the fifth and sixth centuries / Su Bai -- Transfiguring divinities : Buddhist sculpture in China / Helmut Brinker -- Calligraphy / Peter Sturman -- Calligraphy and painting : the essence of a civilization / Liu Jiu'an -- Chinese painting : innovation after "progress" ends / James Cahill. |
| Note |
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Feb. 6-June 3, 1998 and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, summer 1998. |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Chinese. (OCoLC)fst00816103
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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| Added Author |
Lee, Sherman E.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
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| Added Title |
China, five thousand years |
| Other Form: |
Online version: China, 5000 years. New York : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1998 (OCoLC)741480526 |
| ISBN |
0892072024 (pb.) |
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9780892072026 (pb.) |
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0810969084 (hb.) |
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9780810969087 (hb.) |
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