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Buch (Hardcover): Sachbuch
Pastimes
Verlag:
University of Hawaii Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36491722
EAN: 9780824834982
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Zustellung: Fr, 09.10.2026
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Beschreibung
Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship of ancient artifacts and inscriptions. As a scholarly field, jinshi was inaugurated in the Northern Song (960-1127) and remained popular until the early twentieth century. Literally the study of inscriptions on bronze vessels and stone steles, jinshi combined calligraphy and painting, the collection of artifacts, and philological and historical research. For aficionados of Chinese art, the practices of jinshi offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of traditional Chinese scholars and artists, who spent their days roaming the sometimes seamy world of the commercial art market before attending elegant antiquarian parties, where they composed poetic tributes to their ancient objects of obsession. And during times of political upheaval, such as the nineteenth century, the art and artifact studies of jinshi legitimatized reform and contributed to a dynamic and progressive field of learning.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Shana Julia Brown
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 232