China's southern paradise : treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta /
A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history. Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 object...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cleveland, OH :
The Cleveland Museum of Art,
[2023]
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| Summary: | A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history. Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century that range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Essays by scholars cover topics such as Jiangnan in poetry, the region's economy, silk production, southern green stoneware, landscape painting, color print production and urban culture, Buddhism, and garden culture. The essays and object entries consider how the region--home to the cities Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, as well as hilly landscapes stretched along rivers and lakes--became the epicenter of the Chinese art scene and largely defined the image of traditional China. |
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| Physical Description: | 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 x 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-429). |
| ISBN: | 9780300273243 030027324X |