This volume explores the prehistoric beginnings of Chinese art and its development during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties. It analyses the conditions of the emergence of Chinese art and its transformation of form, content and function throughout the Three Dynasties, a historical period marked by important changes in the social and cultural Chinese landscape.
A General History of Chinese Art comprises six volumes with a total of nine parts spanning from the Prehistoric Era until the 3rd year of Xuantong during the Qing Dynasty (1911). The work provides a comprehensive compilation of in-depth studies of the development of art throughout the subsequent reign of Chinese dynasties and explores the emergence of a wide range of artistic categories such as but not limited to music, dance, acrobatics, singing, story telling, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and crafts. Unlike previous reference books, A General History of Chinese Art offers a broader overview of the notion of Chinese art by asserting a more diverse and less material understanding of arts, as has often been the case in Western scholarship.
| ISBN: | 9783110789263 |
| Publication date: | 16th January 2023 |
| Author: | Xifan Li |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 445 pages |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics History of art Paintings and painting in watercolours or pastels Sculpture Carvings, masks, reliefs Precious metal, precious stones and jewellery: artworks and design Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks History of architecture Dance |