Author: Watson, William, 1917-2007.

Title: The arts of China 900-1620 / William Watson.

Physical Description:
286 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 30 cm.

Series: Yale University Press Pelican history of art.

Publisher/ Date: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.

LC Subjects: Art, Chinese.

Other Subject Terms:
Visual arts History
China

Notes: Companion vol. to Arts of China to 900.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-278) and
index.

Contents: 1. Landscape Painting under Northern Song 960-1126 -- 2.
Decorative Style under Song: the Earlier Phase -- 3.
Decorative Style under Song and Jin: the Later Phase --
4. Painting under Southern Song 1127-1279 -- 5.
Architecture I: Tomers and the Imaginary -- 6.
Architecture II: The Wooden Frame, Brick Building,
Domestic -- 7. Sculpture -- 8. Landscape, Plants and
Trees Painted under Yuan 1279-1368 -- 9. Mural Painting
-- 10. Painting under Ming 1368-1643 -- 11. Decorative
Themes under Yuan and Ming.

Summary: "This book covers the most prolific and broad-ranging
period of Chinese art history, from the Song Dynasty
with its spectacular landscape paintings to the Ming
Dynasty with its lovely pottery.".
"William Watson considers architecture, painting,
sculpture, and the decorative arts in equal balance. He
follows styles and motifs as they are developed in each
medium from one province to another and discusses
materials and techniques as well as the iconography and
function of every art form.
He also explores relationships between one media and
another, tracing, for example, the influence of Buddhist
iconography on sculptural traditions and on the
architecture of temples and towers and showing how
ceramic ornament affected the development of ornament in
other media."--BOOK JACKET.

LCCN: 94049679

ISN: 0300073933
Material Type: Book

--- In Mongols_in_the_SCA@yahoogroups.com, Mariann Eaves <drmrsgal@...> wrote:
>
> ... there is surviving architecture from the Yuan Dynasty. I've recently
> run across 20th C photos of some Beijing, China here *
> http://tinyurl.com/eastasiastudies* <http://tinyurl.com/eastasiastudies>* *and
> alot of the scroll work on the buildings and engraved fountains look alot
> like some of the same designs that I find in scrolls from the Yuan Dynasty.
>
> Really my question is, Do we know of any surviving temples that were built
> by Kublai?
>
> YIS
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> Saraqan Uneged
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> --
> If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
> nail.
> - Abraham Maslow
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