The arts of China to AD 900 / William Watson. [v. 1.] To AD 900 -- [v. 2.] 900-1620 -- [v. 3] After 1620.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Library has [vol. 1] only.

Face to face : the transcendence of the arts in China and beyond : approaches to modern and contemporary art / edited by Rui Oliveira Lopes.

On leaf following cover: Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes. Secção de ciẽncias da arte e do património de Francisco de Holanda.

Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa and held in Lisbon from 3rd-5th April 2013.

“This book is published on the occasion of the research project Face to face : the transcendence of the arts in China and beyond coordinated by Rui Oliveira Lopes and Fernando António Baptista Pereira, from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon"--Preliminary page.

"Art in a Global Perspective is a programme iniated by Rui Oliveira Lopes in 2011 at the Artistic Studies Research Centre (CIBA) Faculty of Fine Arts., University of Lisbon (FBAUL)"--Page [3].

"The present book intends to examine the place of Chinese Modern and Contemporary art, the emergence and development of China's avant-garde and their expanses worldwide, the display and representation of Chinese art in the West, and the issues related with cultural appropriation, artistic interaction, geographical delimitation, rejection of cultural tradition, and intervention as a means of artistic expression, and cultural distinctiveness related with artistic creation. For this purpose, this volume includes a selection of papers recommended by a committee of scholars as well as papers authored by other prominent scholars invited to collaborate in this project. The papers in this book are divided in two sections covering two chronological periods: 19th century and Modern art; and Contemporary art, starting soon after the end of the Cultural Revolution. This book offers some starting points for the study of the arts in China and its aesthetic expanses throughout the world during the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Whereas some of the papers move towards the display of Chinese modern and contemporary art in Europe and US; the emergence and development of marketplace for the international commercialization of Chinese painting during the Republican period; and the interactions between Western advertising and graphic design, and Chinese propaganda visual culture; others are more grounded to mutual influence of philosophical and conceptual content; to the recontextualization of Chinese tradition and cultural environment; to the interplay between art, politics and intervention; and finally to the formation of Chinese avant-garde and their artistic expression by different kinds of media such as performance, photography, installation and film, unusual in the history of Chinese art scene"--Amazon.com.

China: geography and early man -- Jade: the Neolithic period -- Bronze: Shang and Chou dynasties -- Lacquer and silk: Han dynasty -- Sculpture: six dynasties and early T'ang -- Pottery: the T'ang and five dynasties -- Painting and calligraphy: Sung and Yüan dynasties -- Architecture: Han to Ming and Ch'ing dynasties -- Postscript: architecture in modern China.

New perspectives on China's past : Chinese archaeology in the twentieth century / Xiaoneng Yang, editor and principal author.

Includes bibliographical references (vol. 1, pages 413-481) and index.

1. 1. Cultures and civilizations reconsidered -- v. 2 Major archaeological discoveries in twentieth-century China.

In English, with English and Chinese in bibliography and glossary.

Introduces and discusses the most important archaeological discoveries in China during the entire twentieth century. The two-volume set draws on Chinese archaeological fieldwork to address cross-disciplinary topics in archaeology, art history, epigraphy, history, and religion.

The arts of China 900-1620 / William Watson.

"Drawing upon and reviewing current Chinese and Japanese material available, as well as the western publications and interpretations, this text explores 800 years of Chinese arts comprehensively. Following styles and motifs as they developed within and across mediums, as well as from one geographical area to another, Watson considers architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts. The text is arranged by successive topics, defining period style, and aiming at satisfying the curiosity of those who meet Chinese art on a historical rather than an acquisitive level. The book aims to inform the student and the connoisseur."