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    Chinese art & culture / Robert L. Thorp, Richard Ellis Vinograd.

    • Title:Chinese art & culture / Robert L. Thorp, Richard Ellis Vinograd.
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    • Variant Title:Chinese art and culture
    • Author/Creator:Thorp, Robert L., 1946-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Vinograd, Richard Ellis.
    • Published/Created:New York : Abrams, ©2001.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Arts, Chinese.
    • Description:440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [420]-429) and index.
    • ISBN:0810941457
    • Contents:Map: China
      Map: Macroregions of China
      1. Prehistoric Roots: Late Neolithic Cultures
      Village Societies
      Material Culture: Making Things
      Mind in Matter
      2. Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou
      Early State and Society
      Craft Production for the Elite
      Beyond Shang and Zhou. Map: Shang and Zhou Sites in Henan and Shaanxi
      3. Late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou
      State and Society
      Craft Production for the Elite
      Ritual and Representation
      Wider View: Peoples of the North and Southwest. Map: States of the Warring States Period
      4. First Empires: Qin and Han
      Imperial State and Society
      Court Patronage and Luxury Arts
      Imperial Ideology and World View
      Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Peoples of the Frontiers. Map: Xi'an Region
      5. Age of the Dharma: The Period of Division
      State and Society
      Dharma Comes to the Middle Kingdom
      Luxury and Elite Arts
      Beyond the Middle Kingdom
      6. New Imperial State: Sui and Tang
      State and Society
      State Patronage of the Dharma
      Elite Life and Elite Arts
      Beyond the Middle Kingdom
      7. Technologies and Cultures of the Song
      Measuring Everyday Life
      Art Technologies and Economies
      Social Coordinates of Style and Taste
      Constructing Landscapes
      Cultures of Art. Map: Northern Song and Liao Empires
      Map: Southern Song and Jin Empires
      8. Official, Personal, and Urban Arts of the Yuan to Middle Ming
      Art and Official Ideology
      Official Patronage of Religious Art and Architecture
      Porcelain Industry at Jingdezhen
      Personal Arts of the Educated Elite
      Urban Arts
      9. Art Systems and Circulations: Late Ming to Middle Qing
      Woodblock Illustration
      Literati Painting and Calligraphy
      Arts of Desire and Memory
      Commercial and Domestic Arts
      Court Arts
      International Arts. Map: Southeast China
      10. Identity and Community in 19th- and 20th-Century Chinese Art
      Images of the Self
      Sites of Community and Public Spaces
      Post-literati Arts and National-style Painting (Guohua)
      Functional Arts
      Political Arts
      Transnational Arts and Avant-garde Movements
      Arts of History.
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