Pattern and person : ornament, society, and self in classical China / Martin J. Powers.
Pattern and person : ornament, society, and self in classical China / Martin J. Powers.
Pattern and person : ornament, society, and self in classical China / Martin J. Powers.
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London ; Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N745.0951/2
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English
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xvi, 374 p.
Contents
Introduction : graphic patterns and social order -- Ch. 1. Style -- Ch. 2. Terms of craft -- Ch. 3. Abstraction -- Ch. 4. Craft -- Ch. 5. Government -- Ch. 6. Labor, invention, and "taste" -- Ch. 7. Craft and political theory -- Ch. 8. Ornament and identity -- Ch. 9. Bureaucracy and agency -- Ch. 10...
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Publisher
London ; Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
Powers thereby posits a relationship between art and society that operates at a level deeper than iconography, attributes, or social institutions."--BOOK JACKET....
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Pattern and person : ornament, society, and self in classical China / Martin J. Powers.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 262.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N745.0951/2
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74VKJV0PDeKZ
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0674021398 (hbk.) :
9780674021396 (hbk.) :
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745.095109014
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991022182019702626
