Colours on east Asian maps : their use and materiality in China, Japan and Korea between the mid-17th and early 20th century /
With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-colored maps from east Asia. Map coloring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Color is an important key...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Map history (Brill Academic Publishers)
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| Summary: | With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-colored maps from east Asia. Map coloring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Color is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map's content, purposes and uses. Moreover, colors are also an important aspect of a map's materiality. The material scientific analysis of colorants makes it possible to find out more about maps? material nature and their production as well as the social, geographical and political context in which they were made. 'Reading' colors in this way gives a glimpse into the social lives of mapmakers as well as map users and reveals the complexity of the historical and social context in which maps were produced and how the maps were actually made. |
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| Physical Description: | 87 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-87). |
| ISBN: | 9789004509993 9004509992 |