Art and Archaeology of the Erligang Civilization

The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication. This book deals with Erligang culture.

Info autore

Kyle Steinke studies the art and archaeology of Bronze Age China, particularly calligraphy and the early bronze industries of the Yangzi region. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.

Riassunto

The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication. This book deals with Erligang culture.

Testo aggiuntivo

"This book will stand as a milestone in the study of early Chinese bronzes."---Jianjun Mei, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kyle Steinke, STEINKE, Kyle Ching Steinke
• Con la collaborazione di: Kyle Steinke (Editore), Dora C. Y. Ching (Editore), Steinke Kyle (Editore), Ching Dora C. Y. (Editore)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 26.01.2014
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte
• EAN: 9780691159935
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15993-5
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Serie: Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University; Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University > 34; Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University
• Categorie: China, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Asian / General, ART / Asian / Chinese, History of Art, East Asia, Far East, History of art: pre-history, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Oriental art, ART / History / Prehistoric, Prehistoric styles