Arts Of China 900-1620; Author: Watson, William; Hardback; Book

Author: Watson, William
Yale University Press Pelican History of Art (Hardcover); Hardback; Book; 191 B&w Illustrations, 200 Colour Plates
290 pages
Published: April 2000
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300073933

This beautiful book is the second in a major three-volume series that will survey China's immense wealth of art, architecture, and artifacts from prehistoric times to the twentieth century.Volume 2 covers the most prolific and broad-ranging period of Chinese art history, from the Song Dynasty with its spectacular landscape paintings to the Ming dynasty with its lovely pottery.William Watson considers architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts in equal balance. He follows styles and motifs as they are developed in each medium from one province to another and discusses materials and techniques as well as the iconography and function of every art form. He also explores relationships between one media and another, tracing, for example, the influence of Buddhist icThe second in a three-volume series that considers the architecture, painting, sculpture and decorative arts of China. It covers the period from the Song Dynasty, with its spectacular lanscape paintings, to the Ming Dynasty, exploring the relationships between the individual mediums.