عنوان

The British Museum book of Chinese Art

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

The British Museum book of Chinese Art

This is a newly revised and updated edition of this classic award-winning book, with updated text, additional new colour photographs and fully updated bibliography This is a newly revised and updated edition of this award-winning guide to the arts of China. The book explains why chinese silks and porcelains, unsurpassed for over a thousand years, have been prized around the world for their fine textures and brilliant colours. Paradoxically, the arts valued most in China have been calligraphy, ink painting, jade carving and bronze casting. The authors explain why, describing the origins of these diverse achievements and setting them in their historical context alongside decorative arts such as lacquer, cloisonne and glass. The wealth of illustrations include well-known blue-and-white Ming ceramics as well as less familiar jades of the Neolithic period and rare world-famous paintings on silk from the Buddhist Silk Road caves at Dunhuang.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

British Museum

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992, 2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

395 p. : ill. )some col.( ; 25 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references )p. 371-383( and index

Text of Note

ISBN: 9780714124469

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Jessica Rawson ... ]et al.[ ; edited by Jessica Rawson

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1

Entry Element

، Art, Chinese

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Relator Code

TI

AU Rawson, Jessica

CO British Museum