The Problem of meaning in early Chinese ritual bronzes
By: edited by Roderick Whitfield.
Contributors: Whitfield, Roderick.; Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art.
Series: Colloquies on art & archaeology in Asia ;; no. 15
Publisher: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Bronzes, Chinese -- To 221 B.C. -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Held June 1990."
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Roderick Whitfield; title: Art and meaning / Sarah Allen; title: Meaning and explanation / Robert W. Bagley; title: Liangzhu culture and the Shang dynasty Taotie motif / Li Xuequin; title: Late Shang bronze design / Jessica Rawson; title: Zoomorphic bronzes of the Shang and Zhou periods / Xiong Chuanxin; title: A textual investigation of the Taotie / Wang Tao; title: Meaning and style in the art of Chu / Colin Mackenzie; title: Aspects of the serpent on eastern Zhou bronzes and lacquerware / Alain Thote; title: Epilogue / Sarah Allen.