The Arts of China, 900-1620
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300073935
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Oriental art; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History Of Fine Arts; Art; Art & Art Instruction; China; Asian; Art / History / Asian; Art, Chinese
Description: "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.