Art of the Yellow Springs - Hung Wu
Art of the Yellow Springs - Hung Wu We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures…
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Art of the Yellow Springs - Hung Wu
We might think the Egyptians were the masters of building tombs, but no other civilization has devoted more time and resources to underground burial structures than the Chinese. to the early twentieth century, the Chinese have been building some of the world s most elaborate tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium B.C.E.
Examining the interpretative methods themselves that guide the It is these objects and the concept of the tomb as a treasure-trove that The Art of the Yellow Springs seeks to critique, drawing on recent scholarship to examine memorial sites the way they were meant to be experienced: not as a mere store of individual works, but as a work of art itself.Wu Hung bolsters some of the new trends in Chinese art history that have been challenging the conventional ways of studying funerary art.