Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery

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Tuttle Publishing, 19 lut 2013 - 320
With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art.

Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative.

Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.
 

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Spis treści

Fruits Vegetables Kernels and Seeds
66
Minerals
114
Real and Imaginary Birds
134
Insects Reptiles Fish
167
Real and Imaginary Animals
216
Children
367

Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia

ancient animals Asian Civilisations Museum associated auspicious bamboo bats beautiful Beijing Beijing’s bird blossoms Bodhisattva bronze Buddha butterfly carved ceramic character Chinese art Chinese Folk Art Chinese Painting Chinese zodiac Chris Hall chrysanthemum clouds coins color combination Confucian Courtesy of Kwan crane Daoist decorative deer depicted dragon Eight Immortals Emperor example expression famous Festival figure fish Five flowers Forbidden City Four gourd Guānyīn happiness heaven holding homophone Hong Kong Hua Art Gallery identified jade known in Chinese Kwan Hua Art lián lion longevity lotus lunar magpies male means Ming monkey moon motif mountains nine official one’s pair peach peonies phoenix picture popular porcelain prunus qílín Qing Dynasty rank badges rebus represent robes rúyì scepter scholars scroll shòu silk Singapore snuff bottle sometimes Sotheby’s stone swastika Tang Temple textiles tiger toad tomb traditional tree vase wàn wealth yáng yīn

Informacje o autorze (2013)

Patricia Bjaaland Welch, MA, is a former lecturer in Chinese philosophy and art at Boston University and has been a docent for over two decades in prominent museums in Boston, Bangkok and Singapore. She has written several in-house training manuals for docents and is passionate about bringing people into museums and helping them to appreciate what they are seeing. She is a frequent lecturer on subjects relating to Chinese art and history. An avid collector and researcher, she is also the author of five published works, including Chinese New Year. She currently resides in Singapore.

Informacje bibliograficzne

TytułChinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery
AutorPatricia Bjaaland Welch
WydawcaTuttle Publishing, 2013
ISBN1462906893, 9781462906895
Liczba stron320
  
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