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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Starr is the former director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and, earlier, curator of East Asian archaeology and ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Klappentext Since at least the seventh century C.E., Chinese ink rubbings of stone, metal, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been created to serve as precise copies of valuable material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of the original works. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, and many other fields, this is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language. Kenneth Starr is the former director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and former curator of Asiatic Archaeology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Zusammenfassung Offers a study of Chinese ink rubbings of inscriptions and pictorial images in English. This book covers history of rubbings! offers a guide to connoisseurship! and serves as a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. The History and Functions of Rubbings 2. Orchid Root and Rhinoceros-Tail Hair 3. The Gentle Art 4. Gentler Still 5. Variations on the Theme 6. When the Work Is Done 7. The Rice and the Chaff Appendix 1. Historical Periods Appendix 2. Terms for Rubbings, the Rubbing Technique, and Related Processes Appendix 3. Terms for Papers Used to Make Rubbings Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index
